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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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"My students threatened to rape and murder me; I had to leave South Africa"

People from many different countries come to Ireland to seek asylum. Over the past number of weeks our reporter Barry Whyte has spoke to dozens of asylum seekers from various countries. Now yesterday we had a report on from inside to Direct Provision centres in Mosney and Ballyhaunis, and we had quite a few text messages in questioning why someone from Albania would seek asylum here. Asylum can be sought on grounds of religious and political persecution. And these asylum seekers from South Africa, Nigeria and Albania have been telling our reporter Barry Whyte why they came to Ireland….