Wicklow People A Bunch Of Sleepy Heads?

A foal such as I…

hristmas is that time of year when all the slightly more bonkers surveys tend to surface.

Nonsense that would normally be ignored by any right-thinking editor gets to shine ever-so-briefly in the blur of the silly season.

And one such survey has just declared that, hey, people in County Wicklow have the best quality sleep in the whole of de land.

Something any Greystonian could have told you. If they aren’t busy having a nap, of course.

The data used has been supplied by the sleep and health-monitoring app WHOOP, who might just be issuing such surveys so that people learn who the heck sleep and health-monitoring app WHOOP actually are.

And just to muddy the waters, the national average REM sleep for Ireland is 20%, which has earned us our fine, wide-eyed nation the title of the world’s worst sleepers.

That Wicklow should score 80.47% then is pretty darn amazing then. Has anyone checked of late – might we be in a coma…?

Pretty close behind us in the mighty shut-eye stakes are Cavan, on 79.32%, Sligo on 79.19%, Kildare on 78.96% and Wexford on 78.94%.

The numbers also reveal that Gen Z (those born 1997-2012) lead the way in REM sleep globally, with an average of 21.54%, followed by Millenials (1981-1996) at 21.45%, Gen X (1965-1980) at 19.9% and those late-to-rise Boomers (1955-1964) at just 18.4%.

It would be interesting to see, of course, how many people WHOOP used in their worldwide survey. We reckon somewhere around 40.

Cover image: Barrie Maguire.