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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'.

Latest episodes

Should Alberta be independent from Canada?

10 hours ago - 9 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

The Forest That Won’t Forget - A Cervical Check Memorial

10 hours ago - 16 mins

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What is ‘caveman’ skincare?

11 hours ago - 6 mins

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More deportation flights - what should be done?

11 hours ago - 12 mins

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Is a screen time ban for under 6’s realistic?

12 hours ago - 8 mins

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Does Ireland need a Housing Tsar?

12 hours ago - 13 mins

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John Cleese: Cancel Culture, Irish Language and Creativity

Fawlty Towers star John Cleese joined Kieran to talk creativity, cancel culture and how he's been coping during lockdown. He told The Hard Shoulder he teases Irish people because of our "ridiculous way" of spelling names - suggesting that other English-language speakers have "no idea" how to pronounce them. However, he suggested that Irish people have a "much greater sense of their own identity" than the British. ‘Creativity, A short and Cheerful Guide’ is published by Hutchinson and available in all good bookstores