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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'.

Latest episodes

New opt-out organ donation system comes into effect

a day ago - 8 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

The Hard Shoulder Bookshelf: Neven Maguire

a day ago - 13 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Should we have generic school uniforms to cut costs?

a day ago - 13 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Paul Murphy discusses his detainment in Egypt

a day ago - 12 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Touring through Ireland’s National Heritage Park

2 days ago - 11 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

What Gaelic Games mean to the people of Wexford

2 days ago - 15 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Could the vaccine rollout be handled better?

The HSE has said 219,200 coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered so far in Ireland. Meanwhile, the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has officially been authorised for use in Ireland, effective immediately, with Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly signing the authorisation this morning. So how are we getting on with the vaccine rollout? Micheal McNamara, Independent TD for Clare and former Chair of the Oireachtas Covid Committee and Barry Andrews, who is Fianna Fáil MEP for Dublin, joined Kieran on Thursday's edition of The Hard Shoulder to discuss.