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Given that Greystones likes to get mad busy whenever GG tries to take a Sunday off, with the Éamon de Valera reenactment at the train station and the Nancy Drew adventure up on the Cliff Walk, we didn’t manage to get to the CervicalCheck protest march on Sunday.

Thankfully, young Ailbhe Skay was there, with her trusty Nokia 3310, and took these incredibly crappy shots.

Approximately 300 people took to the streets of Greystones for this march organised by Orla Leonard, Chris Allen and Pyper Ludlow, three local women who, like so many other women in Ireland right now, are furious over the CervicalCheck scandal and how the HSE tried to cover-up the whole debacle.

The march followed the traditional Paddy’s Day route, starting at the South Beach car park and making its way up Church Road before detouring to Trafalgar Road and on, down to the harbour.

The fact that the protest was in Health Minister Simon Harris’ hometown was significant to the organisers. And you can find out why in our recent interview with Pyper and Orla here.