From Department of Health
Published on 8 December 2020
Last updated on 7 April 2021

This is the provisional order in which people in Ireland will be vaccinated against COVID-19.

  1. People aged 65 years and older who are residents of long-term care facilities (likely to include all staff and residents on site)
  2. Frontline healthcare workers
  3. People aged 70 and older
  4. People aged 16-69 with a medical condition that puts them at very high risk of severe disease and death
  5. People aged 65-69 whose underlying condition puts them at a high risk of severe disease and death
  6. Other people aged 65-69 and key workers essential to the vaccine programme
  7. People aged 16-64 who have an underlying condition that puts them at high risk of severe disease and death
  8. Residents of long-term care facilities aged 16-64
  9. People aged 64 years and younger, and people aged 16-64 living or working in crowded settings (in parallel)