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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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It has been a decade since the Arab Spring; a group of protests that sprung up around the Middle East, and it led to some regime changes in several countries. But what has its real impact been? Hussein Omar is a lecturer in Modern Global History in UCD, who was in Cairo ten years ago, and he joined Kieran on Wednesday's edition of The Hard Shoulder to discuss what happened, and the fallout since.