UPDATE: Children’s Flu Vaccine Clinics still going ahead this week in Tipperary

As part of its encouragement to parents to ensure their children are up to date with the Flu vaccine, the HSE is this week running free nasal spray vaccine clinics at locations in the South East for children aged two to 17 years old.

The HSE have advised that the following clinic will still go ahead tomorrow.

• Friday 17 January: From 10am to 2pm in the HSE’s Tipperary South Vaccination Centre, Grounds of St. Luke’s Hospital, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary (E91 PR83).

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Available free and without appointment at the clinic, the Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) is administered to children aged 2-17 years by way of a safe, quick and painless spray in each nostril. Children can breathe normally and many report that it “tickles” when being given. Parents /guardians must consent to vaccination of 2-17 year olds at the time of vaccination and a parent/guardian must also accompany the children in receipt. Please bring the child’s PPSN with you to their appointment.

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