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Sun and outdoor safety

Find out about sun safety and how to keep your child safe when they are playing outdoors.

  1. Playing outside your home
  2. ​Playgrounds and play near roads
  3. Child safety around the farm

Sun safety

  1. Preventing sunburn in children
  2. Heat exhaustion and heatstroke in children
 

Sun and Outdoor safety

  • Playing outside your home
  • Playgrounds and play near roads
  • Child safety around the farm
  • Preventing sunburn in children
  • Heat exhaustion and heatstroke in children

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  • Rapid Health Protection Guidance Development 10 February 2026
  • Immunisation uptake statistics at 12 and 24 months of age - data up to Quarter 2 2025 10/02/2025
  • Framework for Health Protection Guidance Development in Ireland 10 February 2026
  • 2025-2026 Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Survey Form for Hospital-based Health Care Workers 10 February 2026

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  • Norovirus (winter vomiting bug) circulating at high levels 10 February 2026
  • Heading to the slopes this Winter? Protect yourself against measles 29 January 2026
  • Flu continues to spread widely, following peak in December 16 January 2026
  • Updated hepatitis C case definition for Ireland 12 January 2026

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