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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'.

Latest episodes

The Hard Shoulder Bookshelf: Neven Maguire

19 hours ago - 13 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

New opt-out organ donation system comes into effect

19 hours ago - 8 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Should we have generic school uniforms to cut costs?

19 hours ago - 13 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Paul Murphy discusses his detainment in Egypt

19 hours ago - 12 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Touring through Ireland’s National Heritage Park

2 days ago - 11 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

What Gaelic Games mean to the people of Wexford

2 days ago - 15 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

TD calls for reduction in 'the amount of subsidy that we would give to fee paying schools'

According to Freedom of Information figures released to Newstalk, the Department of Education spent more than €104 million on the salaries of teachers in private schools last year. In fact, the bill for two schools in Dublin was over €4 million. Should there be any subsidies for private schools? Aodhan O’Riordain, Labour Party spokesperson on Education and TD for Dublin Bay North and Arthur Godsil is former headmaster of St Andrew's College and co-director of Godsil Education joined Anton Savage to discuss…