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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'.

Latest episodes

Reaction to the Crowe Road Policing report

2 hours ago - 18 mins

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Mairead Mcguinness pulls out of presidential race

18 hours ago - 5 mins

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Those who went the county council route to become president of Ireland

18 hours ago - 16 mins

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Movies and TV: Eddington, Together and K Pop Demon Hunters

18 hours ago - 20 mins

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Is “Cead mile failte” a fad

19 hours ago - 11 mins

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Why are the Irish we so flippant with the rules ?

19 hours ago - 26 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