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[3] It is intended to encourage exercise and to increase the number of people walking.

According to the Irish Heart Foundation, walking is a "perfect form of exercise", is free and "can be done anywhere, anytime and requires no special gear".

[4] Under the initiative, yellow signs on blue poles are placed at one-kilometre intervals along established walking routes.

[5] These signs, which are funded by the relevant local authority, allow walkers to keep track of how far they have walked.

[citation needed] As of 2007, there were over 150 Slí na Sláinte walking routes around Ireland.