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The Hard Shoulder

The Hard Shoulder 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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Inflation: Food prices 'unlikely to come back down, but they will stop rising'

In its latest quarterly bulletin, the Central Bank is forecasting inflation to ease to 5% this year, while Permanent TSB is to increase the cost of its fixed-rate mortgages for the third time since the summer. Kieran was joined by John Fitzgerald, who is Adjunct Professor of economics at Trinity College Dublin, and he joins me now.