Shauna Bowers: It's really no surprise that young people queued for vaccines

We often speak about the Covid-19 emergency as if it only affected older people because they were most at risk of death and severe disease

Kealan Foley from Kerry is in celebratory mood after getting his vaccine at a walk-in centre in Killarney.

Social media at the weekend was flooded with images of young people queuing up outside vaccination centres, arms at the ready, waiting for their jabs.

The walk-in clinics opened at 8am on Saturday morning, and audible scoffs were heard at the suggestion that 16- or 17-year-olds would be up at such an ungodly hour at the weekend, no less.