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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

Should the voting age be lowered to 16?

14 hours ago - 12 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

The Bookshelf with Martin Beanz Warde

14 hours ago - 14 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Uncertainty this summer as school places are in short supply

14 hours ago - 4 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Cara Darmody on why she’s staging a 50 hour protest

14 hours ago - 15 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

Do we have a ‘do-nothing’ government?

15 hours ago - 8 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

New calls to lower the age of voting - Henry McKean Reports

15 hours ago - 11 mins

The Hard Shoulder Highlights

The popularity of pet-friendly establishments

More and more cafés, restaurants, bars and hotels are becoming pet friendly. In 2017 the Food Safety Authority of Ireland announced that rules banning domestic animals from food premises had been repealed. With dog ownership booming during the pandemic, many pet owners are welcoming a change in policies by some businesses to allow animals to enter. Newstalk reporter Josh Crosbie has been looking into this trend.