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An infectious disease specialist has suggested Ireland will feel the benefit of coronavirus vaccines when we get three or four million doses of them.
Latest figures show medics across Ireland have now given 930,000 doses of vaccines.
Mass inoculation centres kept working through the Easter weekend in Dublin, Galway and Cork.
While a record of more than 30,000 people received a shot on Good Friday.
Professor Sam McConkey is head of the department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Newstalk Breakfast host Bobby Kerr asked him when we would start to see the benefits of vaccines to bring infections down.
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Former GAA President Seán Kelly has said reports Dublin football stars broke coronavirus restrictions to train yesterday are “surprising and very disappointing.”
The Irish Independent reports that several members of the six-in-a-row All-Ireland champion’s squad took part in a secret dawn training session yesterday morning.
Footballer of the Year Brian Fenton and two-time All-Stars Jonny Cooper and Brian Howard are among the players reported to have taken part in the non-contact session at Innisfails GAA club in Balgriffin. Formal sanction
On
Newstalk Breakfast this morning, Ireland South MEP Seán Kelly said the GAA will have to administer “some form of formal sanction” on the players involved.