The Health Service Executive is urging pregnant women and new mothers - including those breastfeeding - to come forward for the swine flu vaccine.
Read the HSE's information on swine flu
The Influenza A (H1N1) vaccination programme will officially start on 2 November but some GPs have already begun dispensing it.
So far nine people have died in the Republic from the virus.
The latest victim was a 14-year-old boy from the east of the country who died yesterday and who had an underlying medical condition.
