Kathryn Thomas: Don’t let fear get in the way of getting health checks

RTÉ’s Kathryn Thomas worked closely with medics and patients for an upcoming TV series. Spending so much time in hospitals reminded her of the importance of regular health checks

Kathryn Thomas: the host of new show My BodyFix

IT’S AN unseasonably warm October Monday morning and Kathryn Thomas has just had her first weekend off in a while. She’s “in flying form”, in shorts and a T-shirt, sunscreen on, and has just walked Ellie, 5, to school, and Grace — two next week — to her childminder.

She an d her husband, Padraig McLoughlin, spent the weekend gardening. “We had a barbecue last night. We were winterising the garden and putting the barbecue in the shed — but it was 20 degrees and we thought, hang on, let’s light it and say goodbye to summer.”