Journalists prevented from attending government vaccine briefing in Ireland
15.02.2021
Date:
15.02.2021
Number of cases:
1
Regions/Countries:
Europe: Ireland
Alert types:
Restrictions on access to information: Access restricted to officials / press conferences
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.