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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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Mortgage approvals continued to grow at a steady pace in January in Ireland. Data from the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland show that first time buyers accounted for nearly 1,600 of the mortgages approved last month. But according to Goodbodys it remains to be seen whether the uncertain outcome of the general election will have any impact on sales and mortgage activity in the short-term, to discuss this cautious outlook, Dermot O’Leary, Chief Economist in Investment Banking with Goodbody’s joined Ivan to give him his thoughts on the matter.