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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'.

Latest episodes

How to do Stuff: Making New Friends

11 hours ago - 11 mins

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Gut health do’s and don’ts

11 hours ago - 11 mins

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Achill voted one of the most beautiful islands in the world

12 hours ago - 12 mins

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DPP did not prosecute 67% of accused sexual offenders over 10 year period

12 hours ago - 21 mins

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International Friendship Day - Henry McKean Reports

12 hours ago - 11 mins

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5 men sentenced after torture of woman

13 hours ago - 10 mins

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'Change is inevitable' - Is a United Ireland 'within touching distance?'

Over the weekend Mary Lou McDonald made a comment that a United Ireland is now ‘within touching distance’ now that Sinn Féin’s Michelle O'Neill is First Minister. Kieran was joined by Kevin Meagher, Former special adviser at the Northern Ireland Office and author of ‘A United Ireland: Why Unification is Inevitable and How It Will Come About’, Robbie Smith, Editor of An Phoblacht and the former General Secretary of Sinn Fein adn Deirdre Heenan, Professor of social policy at Ulster University