Luke O'Neill on daylight savings: 'Very clear evidence' clock change is bad for your health

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There is “very clear evidence” that the biannual clock change is bad for our health, according to Professor Luke O’Neill.

The clocks will spring forward at 1am this Sunday – meaning we will lose an hour as we move into the summer time period.

As a result, when British clocks went back by an hour in winter 1916, Irish clocks went back by 35 minutes and have remained on Greenwich Mean Time ever since. In Ireland, the Government has made it clear that we will not be making any change that puts Dublin in a different time zone to Belfast.this morning, Trinity Professor Luke O’Neill said there is “very clear evidence” that changing the clocks is bad for our health.

“That’s a really interesting number. It doesn't sound like very much but still that's a 6% difference.

 

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