Take a load off: Two people tell their individual weight loss journeys

With Ireland amid an overweight crisis, two people tell Arlene Harris about their individual weight loss journeys.

With six out of every 10 adults and one out of every four children in Ireland currently classed as overweight or obese, you would be forgiven for thinking that society would be accustomed to the reality.

But it seems that despite the growing problem, people who are carrying too much weight are still largely overlooked by the rest of the world — in some instances ignored, in other cases at the receiving end of abuse.