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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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Educating children with special needs in Italy

The issue of special needs education has been a major one in recent weeks, with much talk over whether children with special needs should have returned to school already. In Italy, children with special needs are in mainstream education, and we wanted to understand how the system works over there. Paddy Agnew is a columnist with the Sunday Indepedent, living in Italy, and he joined Kieran on The Hard Shoulder to explain how and why the Italians do it they way they do.