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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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"Compulsory Irish has been a failure..."

A review is being carried out by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, and it seems there are a few talking points set to emerge. One of the main talking points out of it is that there seems to be some thinking that the Irish language should be made optional, while there is also talk of Transition Year being scrapped as a year out, and some components being stretched over the senior cycle. Ed Walsh, Founding President of the University of Limerick joined Richie Oakley on the Hard Shoulder to say why he believed compulsory Irish for the Leaving Cert has failed, and it being optional is the only sensible choice.