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Fitness expert and TV personality Karl Henry is to front a free event targeted at inspiring communities to promote healthy and active living.

Fourteen of Ireland’s most talented student chefs have won a place in the 2013 Knorr Student Chef of the Year competition. Representing culinary colleges and institutes from across Ireland the student chef finalists will travel to IT Tralee on Wednesday February 27 to battle it out for the title of Best Student Chef in Ireland’s premier student chef competition, including James Gumley from AIT.

Ballina woman Siobhan Timoney-Clarke, the Mayo representative in the Spar Spartan Challenge, completed her challenge by running the Dublin City Marathon in October.

Nollaig NiMhathuna from Mullingar was chosen to represent Westmeath in this year’s Dublin City Marathon in the 2012 SPAR Spartan Challenge and is now halfway through the race series designed to prepare her for the Dublin Marathon on October 29.

Having being selected to represent Co Westmeath in the Spar Spartan Challenge Lisa Kiernan from Mullingar completed the National Lottery Dublin Marathon on the Hallowe’en Bank Holiday Monday in five hours and 42 minutes..

The Mayo u8, u10, u12, u14, u16, u18, senior, junior and intermediate cross country championships takes place at Ballina Athletic Club in Belleek, Ballina this Sunday, October 9. The underages races will start at 12pm and this will be followed by the senior, junior, and intermediate races. Over 400 school girls and boys converged on Ballina Athletic Club in Belleek last Thursday for the annual North Mayo cross country championships. Weather conditions were excellent which helped make the day more enjoyable for all. The Mayo National Schools Cross Country Championships took place in Belleek, Ballina yesterday, Thursday October 6 and qualifiers from that competition will go on to compete in the Connacht Championships in Dangan, Galway in on October 15 at 1pm.

Lisa Kiernan from Mullingar was chosen to represent Westmeath in the Dublin Marathon having won the popular vote in the Spar Spartan challenge. Lisa completed the gruelling Frank Duffy 10 mile race in the Phoenix Park on August 20 in a fantastic time of 1:49 which built on her Irish Runner five mile time of 53 minutes.

A free event offering advice on health and wellbeing is to take place in Kilkenny this month.

Fifty-six per cent of Irish parents admit that their children skip meals and the likelihood is much higher among teenagers, a new survey by Kellogg’s has found, with over two thirds of parents with a child in secondary school admitting the problem as against 46 per cent of parents of primary school children.

Tesco has joined forces with renowned nutritionist Paula Mee to develop an exciting healthy eating meal plan booklet, Cooking with Cashsavers. The plan, which feeds a family of four for just €89.95 per week, provides nutritious recipes using products from Tesco’s extensive Cashsavers range.