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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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What should the pension age be?

Fine Gael has promised to introduce a pension transition payment for people who want to retire at 65.  This means that they would not have to seek jobseeker’s allowance while waiting for the state pension. Pensions seem to have been one of the main issues of the General Election campaign so far - with Sinn Fein promising to lower the age to 65, and Fianna Fail saying they would defer it next year. Joining Ivan to discuss the issue on this evening's edition of the Hard Shoulder were Paddy Connolly, CEO for Age Action Ireland, Patricia King, the General Secretary for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and economist Jim Power.