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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'.

Latest episodes

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11 hours ago - 9 mins

The Hard Shoulder

The Kids Clinic: How to to encourage kids to help out around the house

12 hours ago - 9 mins

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Is Ireland being protected from the impact of tariffs?

12 hours ago - 6 mins

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Medvedev meltdown: How to deal with outbursts and remain cool in sport

12 hours ago - 3 mins

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Siobhán McSweeney on hosting The Traitors Ireland 

12 hours ago - 12 mins

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Keeping roads safe as school restarts

13 hours ago - 5 mins

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Should Ireland ban burning of all solid fuels?

Ireland’s air quality is not good enough. That’s according to the World Health Organisation who said that the quality of Irish air is just below the standard of the organisation.   One of the ways suggested to promote cleaner air is to introduce more sustainable ways to heat our homes and to stop burning of solid fuels but is that practical - can we actually ban fires in our homes?   Kieran was joined by John Sodeau Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at UCC and Seamus Boland CEO of Irish Rural Link to discuss...