Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
LAST UPDATE | 5 Jul 2021
OVER 750 PHARMACIES have begun vaccinating people between the ages of 18 and 34 who signed up to receive a Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) jab today.
Almost every pharmacy that’s involved in the program has hundreds if not thousands of people trying to put their names down for appointments, according to Darragh O’Loughlin, Secretary-General of the Irish Pharmacy Union.
“I’ve had reports from all across Ireland – from large cities down to small towns – of pharmacies inundated with people looking for the vaccine,” O’Loughlin told the News at One on RTÉ Radio One.
He said that supplies are currently very limited and that there is probably “only one vaccine for every ten people looking” for a jab this week.
Some 120,000 J&J jabs are to be administered in the coming weeks – 50,000 are already in pharmacies while another 80,000 are due to be distributed.
O’Loughlin added that pharmacies are hoping to get further supplies beyond those already scheduled for distribution.
HSE chief Paul Reid said pharmacies were playing a key role in Ireland’s ramped-up vaccination programme in administering available Jansen vaccines to 18-34 year-olds who opted in and got an appointment.
Reid also confirmed on Twitter that another 343,000 vaccine doses were administered last week, with over 49% of the adult population now fully vaccinated.
“Every day, more people are protected,” he tweeted.
It was announced Friday that people aged 18 to 34 could receive the single-shot J&J vaccine through participating pharmacies.
If you’re aged 18 - 34, you can now get a single-dose Janssen #COVIDVaccine at a participating pharmacy. Or you can wait and register online when your age group is invited. Check this page for more details ➡️ https://t.co/W3uxhgvTKK#ForUsAll pic.twitter.com/ezNpdx78yq
— HSE Ireland (@HSELive) July 5, 2021
After Friday’s announcement, several pharmacies reported non-stop phone calls from people requesting an appointment. Boots Ireland temporarily closed down its bookings for Covid vaccines on Friday “as all available appointments have been booked”.
Some people who had made an online booking with Boots were later informed by text message that their appointment had been cancelled.
The HSE’s chief clinical officer Dr Colm Henry said Saturday that the jabs will be distributed based on the demand from individual pharmacies and geographical areas adding that there may not be enough supply to meet the demand but that other options are available.
The 18-34 age group can also register to receive an AstraZeneca jab from a vaccination centre from 12 July.
Alternatively, the same age group can wait to receive an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna through the HSE’s online portal when their age cohort becomes eligible.
The portal is to open to people aged 30-34 from next Friday 9 July and then younger age cohorts in August.
Efforts to ramp up the vaccination programme are ongoing, amid the threat posed by the Delta variant and a recommendation from public health experts that indoor hospitality will not return until a system can be set up allowing only vaccinated customers to enter.
As part of those efforts, Ireland on Friday agreed a deal in principle to purchase one million unwanted vaccines from Romania.
Yesterday, public health officials confirmed a further 562 cases of Covid-19 in Ireland. On Saturday 488 new cases were confirmed with 512 on Friday.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Yes James, we all blindly believe you! You couldn’t just discuss that one site with Nama, as it would be too obvious. So you threw another few in, to throw a wall of Fog up around it. We aren’t stupid, you lying two faced Facist blueshirt!
Facist Blueshirt…. !!! Nice comment…Thats says a lot about you..
I wonder which party you are involved in Stephen…Had a glance at your tweets btw…nice use of english..
This smells like Minister Michael Lowry’s type of decision making all over again. This certainly should warrant his dismissal.
Correct.
Has he decided that the new children’s hospital would be perfect for Swords or Balbriggan yet?
No, the new National Children’s Hospital is odds on to relocated Castlebar.
He looks like a crook in the photo.
Oh wait ..
Yea ………. Along with all his colleagues
Fat Tony from The Simpsons. Except that cartoon is more believable than this government,
fat tony yea who is mr burns?
Pat Carey is Mr. Burns.
Only he’s got an airport already he’d want one of those as well. Taxi for Dr Reilly.
Anyone wonder why Angela Merkel calls Enda Kenny Smithers.
was that really worth saying?? what have you added apart from another cheap shot… These forums are a pathetc joke
…and yet you still come back for more Declan !
O’Reilly from Fawlty Towers was more trustworthy than this guy.
Squire Hockey must be looking down (or up) and wondering when it was exactly that the Blueshirts usurped Fenian Failure’s mantle as the country’s arbiters of clientism and corruption. Plus ca change and all that….
As Reilly committed the same offence as Sean Quinn’s son, ie. failure to comply with a court directive, at that time he should have been sitting in a cell with Quinn and not sitting down with NAMA.
Jack Kiernan
He’s still in a job because he’s not entitled to his minsters pension yet. As soon as he is, shortly afterwards he’ll be moved aside.
A payback from Enda for the support in the great heavy ho.
Don’t forget FG Have been out of office for a while, it’s a long time since they clocked up a massive pension fund for some of the faithful
O’Reilly has more baggage than a RyanAir flight to Malaga. How he is still in a job is just another example of this shambollic government.
It’s blindingly obvious what O’Reilly was trying to do! The guy has been caught out doing a Fianna FAILure on it and playing gombeen politics for his own electoral benefit. The man is a disgrace and should have been sacked. It say all you need to know about the current shower in power that they all backed him up, nothing ever changes, the same abuses we saw under the last shower just carry on as usual with this bunch of chancers. Bottom line, they are all as crooked and bent as each other, don’t be surprised if the new children’s hospital isn’t moved to a location in a marginal FG constituency or worse to Mayo!
Corrupt to the bone!!
In response, Gilmore said: “In relation to individual ministers and who they meet and what’s in their diary and when: to be honest, I can’t track, nor do I want to track, the diaries of every minister in this Government and who they met and when they met and so on… nor indeed could I possibly do so.”
Why not? Why isnt it possible for this to be done? In this particular case, surely all the available evidence SHOULD be looked at? And if Gilmore doesnt do it himself, why don’t others, mandated by him, do it on his behalf? Wouldn’t this fall into the category of ‘transparency and accountability’ that he is so fond of banging on about (when he is taking a break from running Ireland and Europe)
Whats exactly does this change?? A waste of question by SF?? So what if he met with NAMA…If we can use a property that the state already owns for a primary care site then great??? I fail to see anything in this….Why are you even bothering to write it up??? Most be a real slow news day!!!
What does it change? He said he had no hand in selection of sites. This suggests otherwise. Also, you do know that lobbying NAMA is illegal? And how is it a waste of a question? TD’s can ask as many written questions as they like. You’re not a FG supporter by any chance??
@Declan your obviously a FG fan so your comments dont hold much because……….
It is a pity that Roscommon Co Council did not have your attitude Declan , and use already built office space ,instead of squandering €18,000,000 that they have to borrow ! For shame !
Would not believe a word out of his mouth
have your say