Nun who lived through Spanish Flu: 'Vaccinate a young person or frontline worker before me'

Sr. Colette Hickey. Picture Dan Linehan

A Cork-based nun who is just a few days shy of her 103rd birthday believes a younger person should be given the Covid-19 vaccine before her.

Sr Colette Hickey was born on January 31, 1918, just before the Spanish Flu pandemic struck.