A free flu vaccination is available for the 2 to 12 year old age group from this morning.
Parents are being encouraged to vaccinate their children to protect them from the risk of more serious illnesses.
It's administered as a simple nasal spray and is available at Pharmacies and GP's.
Professor of Immunology at DCU Christine Loscher is asking people avail of the vaccination:
"It's a nasal vaccination, so it is literally a quick sniff for a child, so very straightforward. And we are really asking people to consider having their child vaccinated because it lessens the infection rates that we have in the country and therefore, it will lessen the infections for all of the other age groups".
