Sheila Wayman

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Sheila Wayman

Doing a series of runs that alternate with exercises may not be everybody’s idea of fun, but Hyrox is a competitive fitness trend that is soaring in popularity. The mass participation event that was launched in Germany just eight years ago has echoes of recreational marathon running. Cities around the world are hosting affiliated races, for which participants of all ages and abilities now scramble for entry tickets.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Sheila Wayman

Doing a series of runs that alternate with exercises may not be everybody’s idea of fun, but Hyrox is a competitive fitness trend that is soaring in popularity. The mass participation event that was launched in Germany just eight years ago has echoes of recreational marathon running. Cities around the world are hosting affiliated races, for which participants of all ages and abilities now scramble for entry tickets.

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Sheila Wayman

A sense of occasion still sparks the performer instinct of veteran actor Bryan Murray, despite the unrelenting progression of the dementia he was diagnosed with six years ago. His impish face lights up in front of cameras as he and his partner Úna Crawford O’Brien, a fellow actor in RTÉ’s Fair City, take centre stage in publicising Alzheimer’s Tea Day, to be held on May 1st.

3 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Sheila Wayman

Even before UCD engineering graduate John Travers had started his first corporate job, he was unknowingly sowing the seeds for a career change to medicine years later. With a position lined up at Shell in the Netherlands, he went to do a stint as a volunteer in India. What he saw, heard, smelled and touched there in a home for the dying in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), opened his eyes to inequity and poverty.

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Sheila Wayman

The first thing Brian Colivet does when he wakes at 6.30am each day is to check the health wearable device on his wrist to see how well it reckons he slept. A 38-year-old tech entrepreneur and long-distance runner living in Dublin, Colivet started using the sophisticated, always-on fitness tracker Whoop three years ago, on the enthusiastic recommendation of a friend. It has become an integral part of his life. Countless others would say the same about whatever health wearable they use.