Seating to make you healthy, wealthy and wise

Did you know that while teachers in Irish schools are supplied with ergonomic chairs on which to sit, school children spend hours each day on chairs that encourage poor posture?

“We’re training four-year-olds to sit all day on cheap furniture which is expected to last for 20 years,” says Simon Dennehy (pictured below), CEO of Perch, a company specialising in design for human movement.