Alerts | Access restricted to officials / press conferences

Journalists prevented from attending government vaccine briefing in Ireland

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When Irish Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly held a press briefing on the logistics around the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out a number of reporters and political correspondents reported they were refused access to the briefing because they were not health correspondents, leading to complaints from numerous media outlets.

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