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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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"The cough was like your lungs being grated!"

Persistent ill health can be a long term impact of contracting Covid 19. According to a new study by a team of Irish researchers regardless of the severity of the initial infection patients can find themselves suffering from “long covid” after the initial covid infection has passed. Study lead author Liam Townsend research fellow at TCD’s Department of Clinical Medicine and specialist registrar at St James’s Hospital joined Kieran alongside Aoife Moore a mother of two whose life has been severely impacted by long covid.