Cork natives do most daily exercise

CORK CITY is home to the fittest folk across Ireland AND the UK.

Cork city, home to around 220,000 folk — and the birthplace of Man Utd legend Roy Keane and Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy — were found to take the most exercise of all, with Dublin only coming in tenth.

A study of the fitness habits of 2,300 people by Flora — ahead of the London Marathon this Sunday — found that people living in Cork took an average of 58 minutes’ exercise every day.

Over the week, that works out at 6hrs 46mins of exercise every week, a whopping 350 hours-a-year, or around 15 full days-a-year.

Folk in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh weren’t far behind, with folk doing an average of 53 minutes of exercise a day, be it jogging, walking, swimming or any other sport.

The ‘laziest’ across the water were be from the seaside city of Brighton & Hove, where locals managed just 39 minutes-a-day.

The fittest places in the UK and Ireland, with the number or minutes exercised each day, were as follows;

And those who did the least exercise were as follows;

Chris Entwistle (54) of Brighton, said he was a ‘self-confessed layabout’.

He said: “I’m just not a fan of sport or even walking.

Power

“I don’t see the point of walking when you can get a bus, train or taxi - it just wastes time.”

Paula Radcliffe, 48, an ambassador for Floras’s Get Towns Active campaign, said: “I’ve seen first-hand the difference that exercising with others can have on performance and I’ve relied on that collective power to spur me at many points throughout my career.”