Healthcare workers and over-70s to attend first mass vaccination centres

Booths where people will receive their vaccine at the new mass vaccination clinic in the City Hall, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

Healthcare workers and the over-70s will attend the country's first mass vaccination centres within days, as efforts are ramped up to inoculate large sections of the population following a "rocky" start to the roll-out programme.

The Irish Examiner can give the first glimpse inside a mass vaccination centre in Cork City Hall, where jabs are expected to be given to healthcare workers this week.