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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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''This is really bad now, we need to get on top of it...''

“Out of Control and Extremely Dangerous” is the situation currently in some Irish hospitals according to the Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation due to overcrowding. Over the month of August, there were 823 patients on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick, the highest across the country. Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Galway also experienced massive bed shortages with 738 and 563 patients respectively on trolleys across the month. Kieran was joined by Prehospital Emergency Medicine Physician at West Cork Rapid Response, Dr Jason Van De Velde... The Hard Shoulder 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'.