Ireland reaches half a million coronavirus vaccinations

Marie Nangle, a GP from Tullamore, receives her second dose of the Moderna vaccine from Kayte Gamble, a GP registrar, at the GP vaccination clinic in the Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise. File picture: PA

Ireland has reached the milestone of half a million coronavirus jabs administered.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin hailed progress in the pandemic, tweeting on Saturday afternoon that he had been informed by the HSE that the country had passed the half-million mark.