If your child is in junior infants, they will bring home a
letter from school, at around this time of year, to ask permission for them to get their 2 needles:
– 4 in 1 needle which protects from diphtheria, polio, tetanus and
whooping cough
– MMR needle (a follow-up from the 12 months MMR) which protects from measles, mumps and rubella.
You can find more information about this in our leaflet about school needles here:
or from your Traveller Primary Health Care Project and local Traveller organisation: