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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'.

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"One of the children I fostered was groomsman for my son, you make a connection for life"

This week the Irish Foster Care Associations annual awareness campaign – ‘Fostering Fortnight’ was launched.  ‘Fostering Fortnight’ is a campaign which aims to raise awareness and understanding of foster care here in Ireland and the importance foster care plays in the lives of almost 5,500 children in Ireland. There is a large shortfall when it comes to people who get involved in foster care and IFCA and TUSLA are trying to get more people involved. Anyone interested in getting involved in fostering can go to www.ifca.ie or they can 014585123 Barry Whyte reports...