Pharmacists are urging parents to screen their kids for head lice as schools across the country re-open for the new term.

They say the return to school is often associated with a rise in cases among kids.

It's estimated around one in ten children suffer at any one time.

80 per cent of infestations are among those aged between four and sixteen.

Tomás Connefry is a pharmacist based in Dublin and has this advice: