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The Hard Shoulder Highlights

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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"Austerity was necessary, but things have to be learned if it happens again..."

Professor Christian Kastrop, a former aide for Germany’s former Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble has said that Ireland was hit with unnecessarily hard austerity a decade ago. In comments that will prick up Irish ears, he says that we were caught in the crossfire of a European crisis. Fergal O’Brien is IBEC’s Director of Policy and Public Affairs, and he explains to Ivan why austerity was necessary to get Ireland out of the financial hole it was in, but should it happen again, things would be done a lot differently.