Anna Hayes

A YOUNG local girl is calling for a review of the approach to cervical cancer screening after her own battle with the disease before Christmas, despite not even being old enough to have a free smear test.

Leanne Meyler, from Belvedere Grove has called for a lowering of the minimum age for testing, remarking that if she had waited until the regular age of 25 for hers she would probably be dead.

Leanne spoke out about her experience of cervical cancer during European Cervical Cancer Prevention Week and made the call for a better screening procedure.

HE MIGHT have travelled the world with his seminal work ‘Riverdance’ and other success stories but it is very clear, even from first encounters with John McColgan that Wexford is a place very much in his heart.

We meet an hour-and-a-half before the launch of the Wexford leg of his new photography exhibition, ‘This Is Palestine’, an insightful and humanising look at a crisis that few of us could claim to be experts on.

As I sit down in the lobby of White’s Hotel, he is searching through his phone for something, remarking “I met one of my heroes today”, before showing me a photograph of himself standing next to the statue of Nicky Rackard in Selskar Square.

The subject of Wexford’s seeming resurgence under the baton of Davy Fitzgerald is discussed as the Tyrone-born but Wexford-reared producer admits that he always keeps an eye on the Hurling Championship while Wexford are in it but loses interest thereafter as it has, he believes, become too predictable.