Health minister defends pace of the country's Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly chatting with William and Veronica Duffy, who received their vaccines today. Picture: Julien Behal

Health minister Stephen Donnelly has defended the pace of the country's vaccine rollout and said Ireland had to accept that it wasn’t vaccinating at the same speed as Northern Ireland or the rest of the UK.

"People are very reasonably looking at the UK and saying they're ahead, and they are, we have to accept that,” he said.