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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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With a career spanning 40 years in the world of obstetrics, Ivan's guest for this week's 'Thursday Interview' may well be better known as one of the faces of the movement to Repeal the Eighth Amendment. Growing up in a middle class home in Rathgar, and after choosing a career in medicine over law, Peter Boylan had a career which involved being the Master of the National Maternity Hospital, and helping to move that institution into a more modern era. Ivan was delighted to get the opportunity to get to know the author of 'In The Shadow of the Eighth' a little bit better.