Look at Irish life through a day in a leisure centre: The spinners, swimmers and breakfast children come in at 7 a.m.

They're followed by a steady stream of weight losers and weight gainers...shrieking schools doing swimming.

There are the dreamers. Of wedding dresses and county finals. The mirror gazers. Getting the technique right or just admiring the 'mirror muscles'.

Sports bras, fancy leggings, khaki shorts and ending up with endorphins.

'The Curious Ear' is produced by Ronan Kelly curiousear@rte.ie

January 2013

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