Punchestown Covid-19 vaccination centre opens today
Jabs at Kildare site from Wednesday
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The Punchestown Covid-19 vaccination centre will open today, Wednesday, April 28.
Vaccinations of those aged 65-69 and 60-64 who have registered will begin today at the Kildare venue. However, not all Kildare vaccinations will take place at the site, with some people being directed to Citywest for their jabs.
The Covid-19 vaccine being offered to people attending Punchestown vaccination centre is the AstraZeneca vaccine.
According to Dublin South, Kildare and West Wicklow Community Healthcare, which will operate the centre, this vaccine has been approved for use by both the EMA (European Medicines Agency) and NIAC (National Immunisation Advisory Committee) in keeping with the strictest standards of safety and quality, and is a highly effective vaccine.
A seventy-five-year-old woman died after being engulfed in a horrific fireball after gardaí fear a large container of flammable liquid exploded in a friend s car.
The revelation came as a 62-year-old man, who was rescued from a nearby river, was being questioned by detectives in a Cork garda station on suspicion of the unlawful killing of grandmother and mother-of-three Mary O Keeffe.
Central to the garda investigation is how the car fire started - and Mrs O Keeffe s cause of death.
One garda source said the SUV owner has insisted the tragic fire was accidental and may have been triggered by a cigarette.
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Family of Cork woman found in burning car pay tribute to kind-hearted nanny
A man arrested in connection with her death on Thursday has been charged this morning and is due in court later today. The tow truck arrives to take away the burnt-out car from Drumdeer Wood, at Doneraile where Gardai discovered a body of a woman in a car that was on fire. Picture: Dan Linehan
Sun, 07 Feb, 2021 - 08:37
Neil Michael
One of the grandchildren of the “kind-hearted” widow found in a burning car has paid an emotional tribute to her.
Megan O’Keeffe described Mary O’Keeffe as a beautiful woman who gave “the best hugs” and who was “so much more than perfect”.
FIREBALL MYSTERY
Mary O’Keeffe’s body found in male friend’s burning car as can of flammable material may have caused blaze to get worse
Ann Mooney
Updated: 6 Feb 2021, 8:25
TRAGIC granny Mary O’Keeffe’s body was found in a male friend’s burning car, it emerged yesterday.
And the Irish Sun has learnt a can of flammable material in the motor may have caused the horror blaze to get worse with the fuel tank quickly exploding.
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Motor in which Mary’s burnt body was found is removed from the scene by gardai yesterday
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Mary’s distinctive white car was found a short distance away