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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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'Everything is a balancing act' - Parents pulling kids out of school for holidays

New figures released by Tusla show that the number of parents pulling kids out of school for holidays is increasing. Absences for holidays jumped from 60,000-65,000 in 2019 to 350,000 in 2021. Kieran was joined by Sinead O’Moore, parent and Host of the Stretchmarks Podcast  and Mark Candon, Principal of St. Laurence’s Senior boys National School in North Dock Dublin to discuss...