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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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The Wexford origins behind the Guinness Book of Records

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How trans issues are introduced in primary school ‘going to take a lot of conversation’

The Taoiseach says the purpose of the education system is to teach children about the world around them, which includes transgender people. Leo Varadkar's comments come as the Catholic Primary School Managers Association has written to the government on the topic. In the letter the group said highly impressionable young children should not be taught what it means to be transgender. Kieran was joined by Simon Lewis, a primary school principal and host of the ‘If I Were The Minister for Education’ podcast…