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Sport Ireland Launch ‘It’s My Time’ Campaign Encouraging Women Over 40 To Increase Physical Activity Levels

By Ryan Harmon
Sport Ireland, in partnership with Healthy Ireland, launched ‘It’s My Time’, a new campaign that aims to encourage women over 40 to increase activity levels through exercise and sport. Repeated studies, including Sport Ireland’s Irish Sport Monitor, have shown that women over 40, particularly those from disadvantaged communities, are amongst the least likely to
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The Healthy Ireland Survey 2021

By Ryan Harmon
The Healthy Ireland Survey 2021 has been published by the Department of Health, showing the general landscape of Irish people’s health across a range of categories. Smoking 18% of the population are current smokers, a decline of 5 percentage points since the first wave of this survey in 2015 and roughly equivalent to smoking levels […]
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Launch of We’re Breastfeeding Friendly Mayo

By Ryan Harmon
Mayo CYPSC, in partnership with Healthy Mayo, Mayo County Council and Mayo Chambers are launching “We’re Breastfeeding Friendly Mayo”, a breastfeeding initiative set up to improve the health and wellbeing of breastfeeding mothers, babies and their families through the development and promotion of breastfeeding friendly businesses, organisations and communities. The