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The Hard Shoulder

The Hard Shoulder 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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Afternoon Update: Snow hits Ireland, Grandparents minding kids and Ireland in recession

This is the Afternoon Update – The Hard Shoulder’s daily catch up on the day's news.  Today, Anton was joined by Larry Donnelly, Director of the Kennedy Summer School and Law Lecturer at the University of Galway and Mary McCarthy, Columnist with the Irish Independent. Aoife Kealy from Met Éireann also joined the conversation to give an update on the weather...