Niall Moyna: “If we’re really serious about this we have to educate kids”<\/p>\n
Ireland is a “Third World” nation when it comes to the physical sporting health of its young people, according to a leading expert in the field.<\/p>\n
Professor Niall Moyna of the Centre for Preventive Medicine in DCU is involved in a research study of which details were released yesterday and showed that signs of early onset of heart disease in 15-year-olds are linked to poor fitness.<\/p>\n
The DCU football manager also stressed that reshaping behaviour in primary school is vital if recent trends are to be reversed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Sports Council have made great strides in the last 20 years, there\u2019s no doubt about that,\u201d Moyna said. \u201cBut we\u2019re still a Third World nation. I mean, we talk the talk but we\u2019re couch-potatoes sportspeople…….. see the full story at :-\u00a0http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/other-sports\/ireland-has-to-improve-youth-fitness-says-expert-305617.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Niall Moyna: “If we’re really serious about this we have to educate kids” Ireland is a “Third World” nation when it comes to the physical sporting health of its young people, according to a leading expert in the field. Professor Niall Moyna of the Centre for Preventive Medicine in DCU is involved in a research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5923,6500,9550,4050,5745,4936],"class_list":["post-79419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-fitness","tag-has","tag-improve","tag-ireland","tag-to","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79421,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79419\/revisions\/79421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}