Long read: ‘Weight-loss jabs have been hijacked by Hollywood and middle-upper-income people’ – Measuring the effects of GLP-1s on Irish society

Transformative wonder drugs or overhyped sticking plasters on a much deeper problem? GLP-1 drugs Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound are not just so-called ‘weight-loss jabs’, but fascinating barometers of our culture, behaviour and obsession with thinness.