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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 Hard Shoulder Highlights

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2 hours ago - 16 mins

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"I don't think we'll get to 250,000 vaccines a week..."

With AstraZeneca approved late last week, and around a million doses due to reportedly hit these shores in April, we’ve been asking here on the Hard Shoulder who is going to administer them all? There have been calls for volunteer vaccinators, and from messages we’ve received here on the show, it seems many have applied, but not that many will get to actually vaccinated. So what is happening? Graham Fry is founder and lead medical consultant at the Tropical Medical Bureau, and he joined Kieran on The Hard Shoulder to convey his frustrations.