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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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Next week, Royal Portrush will host The Open golf, in what will be the biggest sporting event ever to take place on the island of Ireland. The tickets for the event sold out in record time, including the sell-out of general admission Championship days for the first time in the history of the tournament. Around 215,000 spectators will pack the course over the four days of the tournament. And organisers say nearly 70% of those who bought tickets are from the island of Ireland. Of the rest, 17% are travelling from the UK, 12% from America or Canada and 2% from Australia or New Zealand. Our reporter Barry Whyte has been to the North Coast to see how preparations are going...