Dr Niamh Lynch: Children of Covid are the canaries in the coal mine

Children are increasingly sedentary, anxious, and obese, and their representatives' warnings are going unheeded 

Dr Niamh Lynch, consultant paediatrician, Bon Secours, Cork.

We are all familiar with the phrase ‘canary in the coal mine.’ 

Until as late as 1986, these beguiling little birds accompanied miners deep into the coal mines, chirping endearingly.