Council Partners Health News

Launch of the Healthy Ireland Cork County Strategy

By Ryan Harmon 7 March 2022

The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Gillian Coughlan has launched Cork County Council’s Healthy Ireland County Strategy in the presence of Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing & the National Drugs Strategy Frank Feighan TD at Cork County Hall.   The Healthy Ireland Cork County Strategy follows the Healthy Ireland Framework with a focus […]

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Campaign to Get Ireland Reading is Back for February

By Ryan Harmon 4 February 2022

Ireland Reads is aiming to get the whole country reading this month in the lead up to a national day of reading on Friday, February 25th. Irish libraries have teamed up with publishers, booksellers, authors and others for the campaign, which is part of the government’s Healthy Ireland programme and aims to celebrate reading and all […]

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The Healthy Ireland Survey 2021

By Ryan Harmon 8 December 2021

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 5 October 2021

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