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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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"It targets pocket money pricing...."

Alcohol sales in Scotland fell to their lowest level since records began in 1994  in the first year that minister set a minimum price of 50p per alcoholic unit. Minimum unit pricing for Ireland was introduced in the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018, which also includes measures such as new restrictions on advertising.However, the section covering MPU - which would set the minimum price per gram of alcohol at €0.10 - has yet to be commenced. Alison Douglas, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland and  Sheila Gilheany, CEO of Alcohol Action Ireland joined Ivan on this evenings Hard Shoulder to discuss.