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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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‘Mould starting to form’ in house left vacant for 6 months by council

The fallout has continued today after the Government won a vote last night to end the eviction ban by the end of the month. There’s been a lot of talk in recent weeks about local authority housing that’s made available or rent through the HAP scheme or even through the tenants in situ scheme, Well lots of people got in touch with their stories of trying to sell home to the local authorities, one of those is Eoin Smyth in Meath, and he joined Kieran on The Hard Shoulder alongside Rory Hearne, Assistant Prof Social Policy Maynooth University and author of ‘Gaffs - Why no-one can get a house'...