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The Hard Shoulder Highlights with Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk. Join Kieran every weekday afternoon from 4-7pm for a round-up of the day’s events, interviews with the people at the centre of the stories – and a bit of craic along the way. Listen and subscribe to The Hard Shoulder on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

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"A generation of voters will tend to vote against the status quo..."

A study by the ESRI has shown that a combination of stagnant wages and higher housing costs have left young workers in Ireland financially worse off than their parents. It found that earnings have flat-lined for young people entering the Irish labour market. Workers in their 20s are earning less than they did in the 1990s and 2000s. Aidan Regan is a lecturer in the UCD School of Politics and International Relations, and he told Kieran how this fact might manifest itself in society going forward.