THE daughter of Ireland’s first Covid-19 vaccine recipient has revealed her father died in September, before her mother was hospitalised, in a year of tragedy but also hope for the family.
Great-grandmother Annie Lynch (79) yesterday became the first person here to receive the vaccine in an historic day in the fight against the deadly virus.
The Dublin native got her first vaccine jab in St James’s Hospital alongside clinical nurse manager Bernie Waterhouse, who works in a designated Covid-19 ward there.
Annie’s daughter Paula Lynch (57) wept yesterday as she spoke to Independent.ie about how she’d not hugged her mother since her 87-year-old father John’s funeral in September.