“In an Iyengar Yoga class, for example, you'd likely use a wooden brick, but in other classes, people prefer cork or foam because they are lighter.” Wooden blocks are more stable and ...

Onyx has created a yoga mat that not only looks great, it goes the distance too. Ultra grippy with a smooth rubberlike ...

As Maine-based yoga teacher Katherine Englishman says ... According to Cloud, blocks made of cork as opposed to foam are much more stable. (“It’s a denser block,” she says.) ...

It’s mentioned in an ancient treatise on grammar, Auraicept na n-Éces (“Instruction of the poets”), thought to date from the ...

As I click into my skis outside our hotel in Méribel, my excitement is tinged with nerves as I look down the slope. Five years had passed since I last skied, and I wonder whether, as promised by our ...

More than a dozen testers moved, sweated, stretched, arm balanced, and meditated on 35 mats. These are the ones we’re still ...

Picture: Denis Minihane Ambitious plans to revamp a row of city centre buildings have been turned down by Cork City Council as planners had “very serious concerns” the proposals would create a ...

A 90-year-old man who died after being struck by a car in a supermarket car park in Fermoy, Co Cork, has been hailed as a “hero”. The fatality occurred in the local SuperValu car park on ...

A number of offices and buildings were evacuated near City Gate in Mahon, Cork this morning following a confirmed gas leak. The leak, which has been described as serious, has since been isolated ...

Block Rockin Beats is back in Cork city next summer as Dec Pierce brings the part to Live at the Marquee in July. Aiken ...

The Cork town has long been a contender for the SuperValu Tidy Towns title, with a small army of volunteers cleaning the streets weekly. Last year, Ballincollig took home the top prize for Tidiest ...