'A kick in the teeth': Woman with rare lung disease hits out at Beacon vaccine decision

Kellie Tallant said she could easily have travelled to the Beacon hospital for the vaccine, which is 15 minutes away.

A young woman with a rare lung disease has described the private Beacon Hospital's decision to give Covid-19 vaccines to private school teachers as a "kick in the teeth". 

Dubliner Kellie Tallant, 28, was reacting to news that 20 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine were given to teachers and staff at St Gerard’s Catholic School in Bray – a fee-paying school attended by children of the hospital CEO Michael Cullen.