YOU CAN KEEP YOUR APOLOGY

CervicalCheck widower blasts Martin after sympathies over case

- SYLVIA POWNALL

STEPHEN Teap yesterday slammed the Taoiseach's "so-called apology" over his wife's death.

He was unimpressed by Micheal Martin's response ater two labs admitted a breach of duty of care in misreading cervical cancer tests.

Irene Teap died from the disease in 2017, months before the CervicalCheck scandal was exposed.

Mr Martin offered "sincere sympathies and apologies" to Stephen Teap and his family.

But Mr Teap added: "Lucky I stumbled across this by accident on Twitter or I would never have heard about it"

STEPHEN Teap has hit out at Taoiseach Micheal Martin over what he described as the Fianna Fail leader’s “so-called apology” over the death of his wife Irene. 

On Thursday Mr Teap said the Government had his spouse’s blood on their hands after settling his High Court action against two labs and the HSE over misread smear tests.

Later that evening the Taoiseach said there was “no defence” for what happened with the CervicalCheck controversy acknowledging Mr Teap’s loss was “devastating”.

Late on Friday night Mr Teap retweeted a video clip from Virgin Media’s Tonight show shared on its Twitter page showing Mr Martin’s reaction to the case.