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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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What effect will the uncertainty over schools have on parents and pupils?

The Minister for Education Norma Foley has said she will bring a memo to Cabinet on Monday, which she says will facilitate the full reopening of schools. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said earlier on Newstalk Breakfast that the Government will be in a position "hopefully next week" to announce the full measures that will enable the country's schools to reopen in September. We’ve heard for weeks, and even months now, that the objective of all stakeholders in education is that schools will open at the end of August or early September. But how that will exactly happen is still not fully known. Louise Bayliss is spokesperson for SPARK and told Ivan why she's concerned.