The new academic year is the perfect time for parents to leave the car at home. Parents must promote active travel such as walking and cycling when schools return and create a better and newer work-life balance so says, Ciaran Dineen Urban Planning student at UCC and Freelance Journalist who spoke to us this morning.

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