'This is the hope for 2021': Prof Mary Horgan first to get Covid-19 jab in Cork

500 frontline healthcare workers are due to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in Cork University Hospital this week

Prof Mary Horgan, Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Cork University Hospital pictured after receiving the actual first dose of the Covid 19 vaccine. Picture: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

“I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time — for months,” Professor Mary Horgan said as she became the first person in Cork to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.

“The fact now that we have a vaccine, this is the hope for 2021 coming to reality.”