A nurse at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital has become the first person on the island of Ireland to receive a Covid-19 vaccine.

28-year-old Sister Joanna Sloan, was given the vaccine,  just after 8am this morning.

The nurse from Dundrum in Co Down, who has a five-year-old daughter, is sister in charge of Covid-19 vaccination for the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.

But has the rollout of the vaccination been broadly welcomed? Our reporter Barry Whyte has been finding out in Belfast.....