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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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Tipperary election to go ahead after all

Well it seems that, despite the sad passing of Independent candidate Marese Skehan, in the Tipperary constituency ahead of Saturday’s polling day, the vote will still go ahead. Days on confusion about the fate of the vote and whether it would need to be delayed now seem to be set aside. But could legal challenges still be mounted? We may be in uncharted territory here! Ivan was joined by James Seymour, Returning Officer for County Tipperary and Dr. Jennifer Kavanagh, a Law Lecturer in Waterford Institute of Technology, who specialises in Constitutional Law and Electoral Law and author of Electoral Law in Ireland to explain the reasons for the about turn.