Ireland is in line to get an extra 46,500 Pfizer vaccines this month.

It comes after the European Commission secured an extra 4 million doses of the vaccine.

Meanwhile the Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has said the issue with vaccines is one of timing, rather than supply.

Minister Donnelly played down reports of serious shortfalls in the number of vaccines expected in the first quarter of this year, and said Ireland has more than enough vaccines ordered for everyone in the country.....