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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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Inside Direct Provision - Mosney and Ballyhaunis

All this week Newstalk is focusing on what Direct Provision Centers are really like. Twenty years ago the then government came up with the concept of Direct Provision. Places like Mosney and the old convent in Ballyhanis in county Mayo were converted to accommodate asylum seekers. Our reporter Barry Whyte has been on a tour of center in both Mosney and Ballyhaunis and spoke to residents who live there.