More than half the population of the Kerry village of Sneem has now had at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccination, with those who received the vaccine spending an observation period in a local pub.
Sneem has a population of around 450 people and it recently saw the arrival of 300 vaccine doses, which were administered at a local health centre this past week.
It means everybody over the age of 70 in the village has been offered a vaccine. The vaccine was given out by two local retired doctors, Dr Patrick Malone and Dr Diane Foord, and the current GP, Dr Hernan Ganzo.
Dr Ganzo, who runs the Sneem Health Centre, said it was a "happy surprise" that it received that number of vaccines. Speaking on RTÉ's Today With Claire Byrne, he praised the