Christmas and New Year seems like a distant memory at this point, although most of us have only been back to work one week.

Rugby star Claire Molloy must be one of the very few who is trying not to lose weight in January, writes Clodagh Finn.

New Year, new you, right? But what if I told you that most of the resolutions you will make this year are designed to fail so that you can achieve the self-fulfilling prophecy that you are just too weak to be able to accomplish it in the first place?

Deirdre Reynolds talks to the stars who’ve waved goodbye to resolutions and said hello to a new way of life.

How are those New Year resolutions goin'? You should really stick with it, ya know.

PICTURE this. The changing rooms in a health club. Two ladies in expensive tennis gear, lightly sweating, zipping their racquets away. One is saying to the other: “I’m incandescent. He made an appointment with the builder to come at nine on Monday to redo the conservatory. He KNOWS I play tennis on Monday.”