Learn to switch off and power down

Whether it’s staying up late to receive office emails on your smartphone or being woken early by young children, a lack of sleep can increase stress and have a serious effect on your health

Lucy Wolfe, a sleep consultant and author

‘You snooze, you lose’ – it’s a term that incenses those who understand the intrinsic value of sleep to one’s life.

“There are others,” said Lucy Wolfe, a sleep consultant and author in Cork, “like ‘sleep is for the weak’ and so on. They are all remnants of the move into the Industrial Revolution when rest was frowned upon.”

And in more contemporary times she believes there are still those who, for no ...