Approximately 300,000 adults still aren’t fully vaccinated, and that seem to be the focus of the HSE as we approach reopening on October 22nd.

Even though the message seems to be that opening will go ahead, there is caution around a rising number of cases.

Pete Lunn is the head of the Behavioural Research division at the ESRI, and he joined Kieran on The Hard Shoulder...

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