Disabled teenager to get Covid vaccine against mother's wishes, judge rules

Court heard the boy, who is in foster care, had told his dedicated social worker he wanted the vaccine so he could go out to town and the cinema again

Judge Larkin said: 'The tenor and thrust of all medical data and evidence is that people with underlying needs have greater need to be vaccinated than anyone else. I have no difficulty in granting the order that he receive the vaccine.'

A judge has given the go ahead for a Covid-19 vaccine to be administered to a disabled 15-year-old boy against the wishes of the boy’s mother.

At the Family Law Court, Judge Mary Larkin has used a provision in the Child Care Act to allow Tusla to proceed with the vaccination of the teenager.