Wicklow siblings Senan Ring (4) and sister Fia (7), from Lacken, pictured enjoying Ireland’s National Fitness Games held at Dublin’s National Sports Campus.

Supported by Irish banana importer Fyffes, the weekend ‘festival of fitness’ is viewed by them as the ideal prelude to National Banana Day, which falls this week on April 19th. Now in its seventh year, the initiative was devised to combat obesity by encouraging healthy eating and an active lifestyle, especially amongst young and growing children.