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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'.

Latest episodes

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7 hours ago - 9 mins

The Hard Shoulder

The Kids Clinic: How to to encourage kids to help out around the house

8 hours ago - 9 mins

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Is Ireland being protected from the impact of tariffs?

8 hours ago - 6 mins

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Medvedev meltdown: How to deal with outbursts and remain cool in sport

8 hours ago - 3 mins

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Siobhán McSweeney on hosting The Traitors Ireland

8 hours ago - 12 mins

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Keeping roads safe as school restarts

9 hours ago - 5 mins

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"What happens if there's mass disobedience?"

Over recent weeks, we have been focusing on the 20 most influential moments of the past 20 years - as chosen by Newstalk listeners. One of those moments was the the introduction of the smoking ban on March 29th 2004. It's hard to remember a time before smoke-free pubs and restaurants, but it wasn’t actually too long ago that the legislation was enforced and one of the key players who worked to get it introduced joined Kieran on The Hard Shoulder. He was the Minister for Health at the time but he is now, of course, Taoiseach - Micheál Martin. The Taoiseach also spoke about the ongoing Brexit talks and why we need to keep up our guard up against Covid as we get closer to Christmas.