Useful Links and Resources
The following resources contain additional information that you can access before and during cold weather events. Always remember to ask for help and if you, or someone you care for, are unwell seek medical help from your GP, the Out-Of-Hours service, or the Ambulance Service and Hospital Emergency Department. You can call 999 or 112 from any phone.
- For advice on how to prepare for winter download and read the Government's Be Winter Ready booklet.
- Check the weather at Met Éireann.
- Tune in to your local radio station to get updates in your county.
- Visit the Department of Transport's website for updates on public transport.
- For updates on conditions on motorways and national roads visit the Transport for Ireland website.
- Check An Garda Síochána website for travel warnings.
- For updates on the latest traffic news visit AA Roadwatch.
- For energy supports visit the Commission for Regulation of Utilities Vulnerable customer page or check out the Citizen’s Information fuel allowance information page for additional supports
- An Garda Síochána or local health and social services are always available for support.
Information, Data and Reports for
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Environment and Health
- Air Quality
- Bathing Water and Health
- Carbon Monoxide
- Climate Change
- Energy and Health
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Public Health Medicine Environment and Health Guidance and other Resources
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Heatwaves - Health Impacts
- Covid-19 & Heatstroke
- Heatwave Advice - Children
- Air pollution from wildfires
- Dehydration
- Heatwave Health Advice
- Heatwave Advice - Older Adults
- Heatwave Advice - Older Persons Services
- Heatwave Advice - Outdoor Workers
- Indoor Temperature Control
- Sun and outdoor safety
- Preventing sunburn in children
- Causes and prevention -Skin cancer (melanoma)
- Investigation of possible waterborne disease
- Water Safety
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Heatwaves - Health Impacts
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Extreme weather events
- Flooding
- Air Quality
- Carbon Monoxide
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Key messages for staying safe during cold weather
- Cold Weather Advice for the General Public
- Air Quality and Safe Room Ventilation During Cold Weather
- Cold Weather Advice for Older People and their Families and Neighbours
- Cold Weather Advice for Parents and Caregivers: Tips to Keep your Children Warm this Winter
- Cold Weather Advice for People with Specific Medical Conditions
- Cold Weather Advice for Health and Care Professionals
- Useful Links and Resources
- Frostbite and Hypothermia
- Heat related hazards
- Public Health advice for severe storms
- PHMEHG Submissions
- Noise: Environmental Noise Guidelines
- Radon and health
- Radiation
- PHMEHG position papers