Finally, some good Covid-related news.
Irish President Michael D. Higgins has received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
He and his wife Sabina, both aged 79, got their jabs last Friday from their local GP.
Last month, President Higgins told Newstalk that the pair would get the vaccine once it was rolled out to the 75 to 80-year-old cohort of the population.
He said at the time: “When they start that category, we’ll both be getting it… I’ll be very glad to get it.”
On Monday afternoon, a statement released from Áras an Uachtaráin read: “Their turn having come, President Higgins and Sabina were grateful to receive their first Covid-19 vaccination from their local GP on Friday.”
Their turn having come, President Higgins and Sabina were grateful to receive their first COVID-19 vaccination from their local GP on Friday.
— President of Ireland (@PresidentIRL) March 22, 2021
Last week, President Higgins made an appeal for global solidarity in the fight against Covid-19 in his 2021 St Patrick’s Day message.
He said Covid-19 has given people the opportunity to examine their attitudes and make changes for the better as we “exit the fog” of the pandemic.
The President stated: “In the message we have received from Covid, surely there is the undeniable insight that we must all, and together, exit the fog of not only the pandemic but all of the hubris, the arrogance, the vanities of assuming the right to dominate, to impose, to exclude; strategies of life which have left us such a legacy of lost communality and a planet in danger.
“We have had the opportunity, since last year in particular, then, to examine the assumptions that have brought upon us less than the best of ourselves.
“There will be a capacity for joy in our exit from Covid-19, but that joy should be informed by our reflection on the new values we will invoke and practice as we set out on the new journey we undertake together.”
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