Health Behaviours in School Children survey 2014

It’s official: smoking is no longer seen as ‘cool’ among adolescents. Teenagers are turning away from the dreaded weed in their droves, with the numbers who admit to ‘currently smoking’ down from 12 per cent in 2010 to eight per cent in 2014. Despite the fact that it is illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone under […]

10 years ago

A worrying new health study has revealed that one in five children in Ireland has gone to school or to bed hungry.  The Health Behaviours in School Children survey 2014, which involved children aged between 10 and 17, showed that 22 per cent of children said they did not have access to food at home, a […]

10 years ago