A free online course to help the public find happiness during the pandemic has attracted 14,000 people. 'The Science of Health and Happiness' is a 10-week course run by the Royal College of Surgeons University of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Organisers said the large interest in the course reflects a need for people to find happiness after enduring over a year of negative impacts from the pandemic.
Professor Ciaran O’Boyle, Director of the RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health, said the pandemic is "having such an impact on everybody.
We are very interested in the idea that while adversity is difficult when we are going through it, adversity can also make us stronger. "We are looking at what science has to tell us about