Coming weeks will be 'transformative' for Ireland, says Taoiseach

An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, T.D., sanitising his hands while in a queue to get the Covid-19 vaccine at City Hall, Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

The coming weeks “will be transformative” for Ireland as an accelerating vaccine rollout and easing of restrictions will soften the once heavy blows of Covid-19, the Taoiseach has said.

Easing restrictions this week should deliver "a psychological uplift for the country” as many services reopen for the first time in months, Micheál Martin said.