Valerie Mulcahy: Girls should never have to choose between fitness and fitting in

Let’s make it attractive to girls to be active, writes Valerie Mulcahy.

I recently read with concern the findings of an extensive survey on fitness, carried out on over a quarter of Irish secondary school students.

Conducted by Irish Life Health in conjunction with its awards ceremony for the 2016 Schools Fitness Challenge, the research found Irish adolescent males are 42% fitter than their female counterparts of the same age.