News - Vaccine

Several Longford County Councillors have slammed the HSE over delays in selecting a mass vaccination centre for the county.

Following concerns raised over the selection of Longford Slashers as the regional centre, The HSE and Longford County Council began a search for a more suitable centre for Longford.

The HSE will miss its Covid-19 vaccine target for the second week in a row. The shortfall is being blamed on issues with the

The head of the group which represents the majority of GPs in Ireland is hopeful that any issues with the vaccine roll out to surgeries

There are fears that operations at Longford's vaccination centre will be delayed due to suitability issues with the chosen site. Longford Slashers GAA club

A Government Minister and Sligo-Leitrim TD is hopeful that immunosuppressed people who are more at risk from Covid-19 are to be moved up

A Leitrim Councillor has expressed his concern about the pace of rolling out the Covid vaccine to the over 70s. It's hoped 100,000

Older people in the Shannonside region say they would be happy to receive the Astra Zeneca vaccine if it was approved. Despite the approval of

The head of the Irish Medical Organisation doesn't believe there needs to be significant changes to the government's vaccination roll out plan. The

The Health Minister says he’s disappointed with the delayed rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Stephen Donnelly says talks are ongoing with the Pharma giant

The Saolta Hospital group has denied that non-frontline staff received vaccines, or that employees on leave had been asked into the hospital to get

The first Leitrim man in a nursing home in the county to be vaccinated against Covid 19 says people have nothing to fear from the

There has been a further 93 Covid-19 deaths - the highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic. It beats the previous record of

Longford pharmacist Padraig Loughrey is welcoming the agreement which will allow them to begin to administer vaccines from early next month. The Longford man says