An Irish entrepreneur is aiming to take the weight of the world off our shoulders by helping wearers of her weighted blanket get a better night’s sleep.

A worrying number of under 12's here can not run, jump, throw or catch a ball properly, according to a new report.

DR JOHANN Issartel of Dublin City University’s School of Health and Human Performance is not given to hyperbole. 

The biggest data analysis project of its kind, globally, is to be conducted in primary schools so experts can see what must be done to get young children achieving the exercise levels of previous generations.