A new blog on the importance of sleep published on RTE Brainstorm. The importance and role that sleep plays in human health and well-being is highlighted. View here

A new blog on the importance of sleep published on RTE Brainstorm. The importance and role that sleep plays in human health and well-being is highlighted. View here
In a previous blog we reported on the timing, quality and quantity of protein intake in the prevention of the age-related decline in muscle mass, termed sarcopenia. This month saw the launch of a study […]
Last month PESS postgraduate researcher Niall Kelly was part of a series of documentaries aired on Sky Sports. In ‘Mind Games’, Sky investigates what it means to be mentally tough in sport through the prism […]
Research Impact: This is the first comprehensive study exploring dry-land resistance training (RT) practices of elite swimming strength and conditioning (S&C) coaches. Twenty-three elite swimming S&C coaches from Ireland, Great Britain, Australia and the United States […]
A substitute Physical Education teaching position has arisen in Sancta Maria College, Ballyroan Dublin 16, Tel 01 4934887. It is an all girls’ school under the trusteeship of Ceist. The timetable is 22 hours full time […]
ABSTRACT: Asymmetries of the rowing stroke cycle have been assessed with reference to kinematics and foot‐force measures in laboratory testing environments. It remains unclear how asymmetries in propulsive kinetic measures are related to on‐water rowing […]
Abstract Objectives To examine whether the Functional Data Analysis (FDA), Statistical Parametric Mapping(SPM) and Statistical non-Parametric Mapping (SnPM) hypothesis testing techniques differ in their ability to draw inferences in the context of a single, simple experimental […]
The Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences announces 2 Teaching Assistant Posts. One in Sport and Exercise Sciences and the other in Physical Education/Sport and Exercise Sciences to commences in August 2018. The closing […]
“We need to keep in mind that the future is not something we simply enter, the future is also something we help create” (Baltes, 1997, p. 378). When we think about the definition of work, […]
According to Mark Twain “New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” With Christmas over we come […]