When personal trainer Oisín Mulligan (25) decided to eat an item off the McDonald’s menu every day for two weeks in 2021, he did so to try to deconstruct the narrative around ‘good’ and ‘bad’ foods that is regularly touted by weight loss and fitness influencers. He posted videos on his TikTok account (@mulligainz fitness) documenting his endeavour, with each of his videos attracting over 1,000 likes.
When personal trainer Oisín Mulligan (25) decided to eat an item off the McDonald’s menu every day for two weeks in 2021, he did so to try to deconstruct the narrative around ‘good’ and ‘bad’ foods that is regularly touted by weight loss and fitness influencers. He posted videos on his TikTok account (@mulligainz fitness) documenting his endeavour, with each of his videos attracting over 1,000 likes.
Every Friday, a core team of seven volunteers work across four rooms in an enterprise centre in Clondalkin, west Dublin, packing up to 100 food parcels every week for people registered with the Society of St Vincent de Paul’s (SVP) Bawnogue Food Bank. They are just some of the many volunteers around the country who keep food banks running, and who are bracing themselves for what looks set to be their busiest Christmas yet.
There has been a renewed focus on plant-based diets in Ireland in recent years, where well-established lifestyles such as veganism (where no animal or dairy products are consumed), and vegetarianism (where no meat and fish are consumed), are being popularised alongside newer terms like ‘flexitarian’, referring to someone who will have some meatless meals during the week but will consume meat at other times.
When Faye Ní Dhomhnaill (23) started studying in Galway in 2019, she indulged in the typical student tradition of attending lectures all day, letting her hair down on nights out, and enduring the inevitable hangovers afterwards.