Maresa Fagan: I turned down chance to get vaccinated in the North

While it was tempting, I wasn’t comfortable with the thought of depriving someone else on the priority list from receiving a potentially life-saving vaccine 

The fact that the UK approved the AstraZeneca vaccine ahead of the EU last December gave it the edge over Ireland and its European counterparts.

Last month I turned down an invitation to get the Covid-19 vaccine in Northern Ireland. Several people thought I was mad, but for me, it didn’t feel right to take the vaccine from someone else.

The opportunity came about because I had lived and worked in Belfast since 2016 and only returned home to Ireland in March last year, just as the first wave of Covid-19 was beginning to bite.