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Residents and staff at a nursing home in Phoenix Park have started receiving their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Up to 600 residents and staff at St Mary s Hospital will receive the jab over the next three days.
Henry McKean captured the relief and emotion at the home for today s
Moncrieff - speaking to the staff on the grounds: through a window, two-metres apart, and behind PPE.
75-year-old man becomes first resident to get COVID-19 vaccine at Dublin nursing home
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75-year-old Eamon Hughes - originally from Cavan, and living in Meath for 40 years - was the first to get the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at St Mary s Hospital.