# Flu
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This year
2024
Overcrowding
640 patients without beds as HSE warns public to avoid emergency departments if possible
23 Jan
11.0k
23
Last year
2023
Health Service
Minister warns rise in flu and Covid cases will increase pressure on hospitals
30 Dec 2023
9.0k
Covid-19
HSE warns of expected increase in flu and Covid cases amid jump in hospitalisations
28 Dec 2023
19.7k
8
flu vaccine
Free nasal spray flu vaccine programme extended to children aged between 13 and 17
4 Dec 2023
6.3k
winter period
HSE warns of public health risk due to low uptake of winter Covid-19 and flu vaccines
21 Nov 2023
13.8k
flu season
Public encouraged to get Covid-19 and flu vaccines ahead of winter virus season ‘peak’
31 Oct 2023
14.0k
Vaccines
HSE's autumn winter flu and Covid-19 vaccination programme gets underway today
2 Oct 2023
14.5k
65
Stephen Donnelly
New round of Covid and flu vaccines to roll out at the start of October, minister says
21 Sep 2023
25.3k
185
flu season
Ireland has passed the peak of this year’s 'severe' flu season, according to the CMO
20 Jan 2023
14.4k
14
Trolley crisis
HSE boss: Flu, RSV and Covid figures at levels above Govt's 'most pessimistic modelling' for winter
Updated
17 Jan 2023
27.4k
24
Healthcare
Healthcare services situation ‘matching or exceeding most pessimistic model’, HSE boss says
12 Jan 2023
10.0k
6
Healthcare
HSE rolls out walk-in flu vaccines for children after 700 hospitalisations over winter
10 Jan 2023
16.2k
7
Respiratory viruses
Chief medical officer has not advocated for a mask mandate, says Taoiseach
Updated
10 Jan 2023
18.9k
90
winter surge
Over 200 medicines unavailable in Ireland, including cough syrups and soluble painkillers
9 Jan 2023
28.7k
17
winter surge
CMO warns parents to keep sick kids at home while consultant says patients 'at risk' due to trolley crisis
Updated
4 Jan 2023
48.1k
59
All time
winter viruses
Mercy University Hospital introduces visiting restrictions due to surge in flu cases
31 Dec 2022
14.5k
0
Coronavirus
Covid-19 hospitalisations are rising, so where are we with the virus heading into winter?
Updated
14 Oct 2022
46.2k
44
the needle has landed
HSE launches winter vaccination programme with flu and Covid-19 jabs
3 Oct 2022
26.8k
9
Flu
Flu viruses now circulating in Ireland with reported rise in cases over past week
Updated
18 Feb 2022
34.0k
35
Flu
'Early days' for the spread of the flu as no cases reported in the last week
5 Nov 2021
11.8k
12
vaccine drive
'No evidence' yet of flu circulating but HSE urges people to 'be prepared' for winter
20 Oct 2021
22.1k
34
flu season
120,000 doses of children's flu vaccine destroyed due to low uptake, despite 'heavyweight' promotion campaign
Updated
16 Mar 2021
30.7k
29
FACTCHECK
FactCheck: No, the lack of hospitalisations from flu is not because cases are mistakenly being diagnosed as Covid-19
23 Jan 2021
48.1k
Coronavirus
'If you have flu-like symptoms, assume it's Covid and self-isolate', Holohan warns
4 Jan 2021
66.4k
52
pharmacy union
Pharmacists urge Government to extend free flu vaccine to teenagers
23 Nov 2020
20.5k
37
Flu
'No doses have disappeared': HSE's Colm Henry rejects claims that some flu vaccines missing
11 Nov 2020
24.1k
24
Supplies
Concerns over 'significant delay' in delivery of flu vaccine from HSE supplier
15 Oct 2020
26.4k
20
Vaccination
The flu vaccine and children: Here is everything parents need to know
28 Sep 2020
54.4k
27
flu season
HSE set to face difficult task in reaching flu vaccination targets for healthcare staff
12 Sep 2020
27.1k
29