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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

The Hard Shoulder Bookshelf: Neven Maguire

18 hours ago - 13 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

New opt-out organ donation system comes into effect

18 hours ago - 8 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Should we have generic school uniforms to cut costs?

18 hours ago - 13 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Paul Murphy discusses his detainment in Egypt

18 hours ago - 12 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Touring through Ireland’s National Heritage Park

2 days ago - 11 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

What Gaelic Games mean to the people of Wexford

2 days ago - 15 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Mask mandate dropped

The universal mandatory wearing of masks in hospitals and other healthcare areas by patients, visitors and staff has come to an end this week. It follows recent advice from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. It will now be a matter for each hospital to decide on how this should apply in practice. Sam McConkey is an infectious Disease Specialist at the RCSI University of Medicine and Jack Lambert is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the UCD school of Medicine.Joined Kieran to discuss their reaction to the news.