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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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Why do we love puzzles?

The typical adult plays two puzzles a day, with almost half of those mobile game players spending on average 25 minutes a day playing them.Stefanie Preissner is a broadcaster, and presenter of the ‘Basically’ podcast, and Mark Goodliffe, who is a serial crossword champion, and co-host of the ‘Crack The Cryptic’ Youtube channel, joined Kieran to discuss what it is about puzzles we love so much.