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Not only is belly fat bad for your health, it can also be a real challenge to lose: you feel like you're doing all the right things, but it just won't budge.Abdominal weight loss requires a multi-pronged approach that goes way beyond just what you eat. In The Belly Fat Solution, Dr Eva demystifies the true causes of belly fat. Discover: - How to prevent stress hormones from storing fat around your waist- Which supplements actually work to help you lose weight- The importance of the gut microbiome- The type of exercise that makes a difference and the type of exercise to avoid- The role that sleep plays in getting resultsWith an easy-to-follow diet plan based on the most recent science, The Belly Fat Solution is a revolutionary, proven approach to losing that fat around the middle...for good!

Aged just 12, Patrick Sheedy placed his first bet for 10p and devised his first scam, marking the beginning of his life as a compulsive gambler and one of Ireland's most notorious con artists. Nearly 40 years on, after accumulating almost 100 criminal convictions, gambling away over a million euro and serving time in some of Ireland's toughest prisons, his life is back on track and he has taken control of his addiction.Sheedy's is a tale of compulsive gambling and one man's decades-long battle with addiction and the terrible lengths he went to feed it. Shocking, gripping and powerfully honest, A Hundred to One is the tell-all story of the author's pursuit of 'the big win' at the cost of everyone and everything around him. It is also a hopeful reminder that recovery is possible, even from the depths of addiction.

'Mrs Byrne, you've a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye." As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus and I still would have come out better than this.So begins Jason Byrne's Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy, a laugh-out-loud memoir that captures the childhood adventures of an accident-prone youngster in 1970s and 1980s suburban Dublin.It was a time when your brother persuaded you to eat the grease behind the cooker by telling you it was caramel, your house was blown up by lightning, your dad mixed up the toothpaste and the 'arse-cream', and you fell asleep on Sunday nights to the sound of one of the neighbours - who were all named Paddy - drunkenly singing 'Magic Moments' in the good front room. All of this while trying to stop your wonky eye from giving the game away.Jason Byrne's childhood adventures are nostalgic, heart-warming and, above all, hilarious.

Tom Garvin's bestselling and thought-provoking book looks at Ireland's public policy from 1920 to 1970, which, he argues, left large numbers of young people without preparation for life in the modern world.

The Sea Area Forecast is broadcast daily on RTÉ radio at 6 a.m. and midnight. Foretelling fair days or fierce storms coming in across our seas, it has become a national institution - its hypnotic, rhythmic language as reassuring as the Angelus. Acting as a gentle morning wake-up call and a soothing bedtime lullaby, it transports us to faraway places and describes weather patterns we can't comprehend. From Mizen Head to Malin, Valentia to Loop Head, and Carlingford Lough to Hook Head - rising or falling slowly, backing south-east to north-east or veering south-to-south-west it has a unique language all of its own, but what does it all mean?Here, meteorologist Joanna Donnelly takes readers on a journey around Ireland's Sea Area Forecast, visiting the places that are a familiar part of the daily broadcast and explaining its unique history, language and science.

Discover the rebel girl that was Granuaile! Born in a castle 500 years ago, Granuaile's parents wanted her to be a lady and get married, but Granuaile had other ideas, so she cut off her hair and set out to sea. Color illustrations throughout. 7 & up

A father-daughter Journey from Croagh Patrick to Santiago de Compostela.

This is the first major biography of Parnell in 30 years. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished and long-established Wicklow family; he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable.

"Proceeds from the sale of Nine by three support Collins Library at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA."--T.p. verso.

Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) was one of the most remarkable people in the nineteenth century.

Through meditation, Conor Creighton woke up to the powerful force that is self-love and watched as his relationships and the whole world transformed around him. In this modern manifesto and spiritual guide to relationships, he shows us how truly loving ourselves has the power to change the world.

A timely look at the possibility of an integrated and united Ireland from one of the country's most distinguished investigative journalists.

Dublin Tenement Life is one of the great books about the Irish capital. From first hardback publication it was recognized as an instant classic and was a huge critical and commercial success. It is now re-issued in small-format paperback.