Elaine Loughlin: Norma Foley has science on her side in battle with unions

The National Immunisation Advisory Committee's advice to prioritise vaccination on an age basis may be imperfect and blunt, but it is also objectively fair

Minister for Education Norma Foley has told the INTO annual conference that the Government is unlikely to revise its decision on the new vaccine rollout. File picture: Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews.ie

Education Minister Norma Foley may have reopened the door to teachers in January, but this time she will have to keep it firmly closed.

If she were to budge, the Government would have everyone from the gardaí, to family carers, and shop workers banging the same door and all would have equally valid cases to make on the vaccination rollout.