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In recent times we’ve become a frightfully healthy lot.

Yup – the days of munching our way through piles of buttered batch bread, gallons of milk, and meat-and-potatoes with a side of more potatoes are increasingly numbered.

We juice; we detox; we TRX with enthusiasm.

Indeed, these days we even have a dedicated healthy town for 2016.

Step forward the majestic seat of Navan; home of Pierce Brosnan, Hector Ó'hEochagáin, and Tommy Tiernan… and now the reciprocate of the Healthy Town 2016 accolade.

That means Navan is THE place where folk are going to be getting into serious shape. And from September, it is hosting a full eight weeks of the likes of free heart health screenings, workouts, and nutritional seminars.

Which in turn, we suspect, means the already strapping population of Navan will be making their bid to take over the country before the year is out.

Hat-tip too to Athlone, Portlaoise, Wicklow and Kilkenny – all previous champions of the same initiative, which is supported every year by Pfizer and the Irish Times.

Hector Ó himself is also getting involved for 2016, and he said today that the event was “about inspiring the people of Navan – and people in towns all around Ireland – to make the most of the wealth of clubs, groups, facilities and resources that are at their fingertips”.

Adding that Navan “has so much to be proud of and so many health and wellbeing facilities,” he stated for the record that the 2016 health drive was also going be “great craic” (which it definitely is).

The Healthy Town Facebook page is now up and running with the hashtag #MyHealthyTown also getting off the ground.

You can find out lots more here.

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With a little over a month to go until the first round of CAO offers become available, let’s take a look at the direction that the courses appear to be heading in.

With the analysis of the 2015 CAO applications already well underway, the first assumption is that the points for law and engineering are on the rise.

When the first round of offers come out on August 17th, students should expect engineering, technology, law, architecture and other construction-related courses to have risen from last year.

According to The Irish Times, the points for arts, science, social science and primary teaching are most likely going to stay at a similar level to 2014.

As the points for medicine dropped in 2014 because of the reconfiguration of the marking scheme for the Hpat test, there has been a small increase in the number of applications to the field this year. This could result in a small points increase this year. 

With the economy looking more stable, construction-related courses are not the only degrees gaining popularity again. Business courses remain prominent with applications up 2.3 percent on last year.

This could mean a 5-10 point increase for the most sought after business courses.

A huge drop has been seen in the number of applications for agriculture and horticulture courses. The number of students choosing them as their first-choice options are down by 19 percent from last year. 

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More than three times a week; once a week; once a month, or not at all in the last year: when it comes to sex, there is no 'normal'.

However, we do now at least have a national average. Yes, the country's biggest ever sex survey has been compiled – and the results prove once and for all that we are indeed a nation that loves to get jiggy with it.

Put together by the Irish Times, it noted that close-to half of sexually-active respondents enjoy bedroom action at least once a week. Hurrah!

With more than 12,000 people responding to the survey, it has been revealed that more than a fifth of women aged between 17 and 24 are hitting that magic three-times-a-week target – though just 16 percent of 17-24-year-old males could lay claim to the same.

But having a lot doesn't mean having it with just anyone: a third of 17-24 year-old men have never had a one-night stand, with 37 percent of women also claiming the same (though at the other end of the scale, some 15 percent of men and 14 percent of women in the 25-34 age bracket have had more than five one-night stands).

Indeed, six out of every ten women and more than half of men aged 17-24 have had between two and ten partners.

We're not all that eager to jump into the sack too early either: the average age to lose your virginity is 19.

And just 16 percent overall have had a threesome or group sex.

However, despite such comprehensive research, sexologist Emily Power Smith told the newspaper that people shouldn’t compare themselves to the statistics. 

“Six months to a year is what we know as the ‘honeymoon period’… It is a physiological fact that we cannot keep producing the same hormones that we did in the beginning.

“Therefore we need different skills and levels of communication if we hope to sustain an exciting and satisfying sex life.”

 

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A new poll carried out by The Irish Times suggests that support for same-sex marriage has risen significantly in Ireland over the last 18 months.

It would seem that the debate has intensified following a planned referendum by the government on same-sex marriage next year.

The new poll found that 67% said yes to support of same-sex marriage while 21% said no and 12% remained undecided.

These findings can be compared to a poll completed back in November that found 53% said yes to support of same-sex marriage, 30% said no and 17% remained undecided.

The poll also found that people of a younger generation are generally more in support of same-sex marriage, 80% of 18-24 year-olds asked said yes in support while only 44% of 65 year-olds and older said yes.

Women are also found to be more in favour of same-sex marriage with 73% saying yes in support in comparison to 61% of men.

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