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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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Donegal GP - "when I see the rollout in the North, I've complete vaccine envy"

Northern Ireland are currently administering on average five times more vaccines than here per day. Figures released by the Department of Health in the North today show that they’ve now administered a total of 381,894 vaccines; 353,757 first doses and 28,137 second doses. While here the HSE say 243,353 vaccines have been administered up until February 8th here. On Monday this week 2,866 vaccines were administered across the whole of the Republic of Ireland. On the same day, 14,254 vaccines were administered in Northern Ireland. Our reporter Barry Whyte has been to the border area of Lifford and Strabane to see the disparity in the vaccine rollout between the North and South.....