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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'.

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"The longer you're on dialysis ... the sooner you get a transplant, the better..."

Derry and Sallyanne Clarke were Kieran's guests on The Thursday Interview this week, and they spoke about their son, Andrew, who took his own life at the age of 16 at the end of 2012. They spoke about organ donation, and how they're passionately in favour of an 'opt-out' system when it comes to organ donation. This ‘opt out’ option has been promised for a long time, through at least 3 Governments. Lorna McSwiggan is dialysis nurse waiting on a kidney transplant herself, and Karen McDermott is a mother, and a heart transplant recipient in the past.  They spoke about their respective positions, and Labour Party leader Alan Kelly gave his reaction to the delays in getting legislation through.