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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 men who did this are thugs, cowardly b*#tards"

Locals in a Co Rosscommon village have said they are shocked and angry after a 93-year-old woman was terrorised in an aggravated burglary. Four masked men broke into the home of Una Farrell in the early hours of Monday morning. Her home sits adjacent to the shop she runs and the attackers locked her in a room with her two adult sons while they ‘ransacked’ the place. They eventually made off with a sum of cash, cigarettes and some jewellery. Una, who is just days short of her 94th birthday, said she was “a bit traumatised” by the home invasion but was determined to reopen the shop and get back to work. Our Chief Reporter Barry Whyte has been to the village of Ballintubber...