The HSE would like to express its sincere thanks to Cork GAA for its support of the on-going response to COVID-19, as the community vaccination centre at Páirc Uí Chaoimh closes.
The last appointments at the Páirc Uí Chaoimh vaccination centre took place on Tuesday afternoon, almost six months after the first vaccinations were administered there in March. The team at Páirc Uí Chaoimh administered 158,081 doses in total. Páirc Uí Chaoimh also served as a Covid-19 test centre in the first half of 2020.
CEO of the South / South West Hospital Group, Gerry O’Dwyer, thanked Cork GAA for making Páirc Uí Chaoimh and other centres in Mallow and Clonakilty available.
We are incredibly grateful for the support of Cork GAA in making Páirc Uí Chaoimh available to us. We wish to thank them for everything they have done to help us ensure that the vaccination centre at Páirc Uí Chaoimh was accessible and efficient. It allowed us to increase capacity for Cork city and the wider region at a time when it was essential to deliver as many vaccination appointments as possible.
We’d like to thank everyone who has worked so hard in this centre. That includes the teams who set the centre up; security; IT; the Defence Forces; and the clinical and administrative teams. It has been incredibly successful and it allowed us to safely and efficiently vaccinate large numbers when that capacity was needed, he said.
On behalf of the HSE, I sincerely thank the GAA for their support. This has been a really valuable addition to our network of vaccination centres across the region. Mr O’Dwyer added.
Planning work is well underway for the next phase of the vaccination programme, locally and nationally. In Cork, this includes reorganising and consolidating the vaccination programme with the establishment of a new vaccination centre in Cork city. An opening date for this new vaccination centre has not yet been finalised.
Appointments and walk-in vaccination clinics are continuing at the vaccination centre in City Hall.
The majority of people who wish to receive a vaccine have now received one and walk-in vaccination clinics are continuing to allow anyone yet to receive both doses to do so without registering in advance.
Walk-in clinics will take place in the City Hall vaccination centre on:
- Friday September 17th from 1pm to 4pm
- Saturday September 18th from 11am to 2pm
The Bantry centre (in the new primary care centre) will have a walk-in clinic on Saturday, from 9am to 11am and 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
A walk-in clinic will run at Mallow GAA club on Sunday, from 9.15am to 11.15am
There will also be walk-in vaccinations on Sunday at Clonakilty, 9am to 11am
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