I got to experience something this week that close to one and a half million people here have already encountered. But yet, it is a rare thing, a unique event - first dose vaccination.
This has only been possible due to the appliance of science and medicine over the past 12 months, in a flurry of activity to get safe, effective vaccines available to the world.
Like most people, I have waited for my time to be called. In my case, it happened based on age. I had registered on 4 May, after the May Bank Holiday and earlier this week got notified by text of my first dose vaccination appointment at the Aviva in Dublin for just after noon on Thursday.