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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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"We will do whatever is necessary to support as many people as possible!"

The National Public Health Emergency Team have been meeting to consider new risk assessment and guidelines for tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. It is also considering warnings from the European Centre for Disease Control that the health system here may not be able to cope with rising numbers of patients in critical condition. Dr Tom Ryan is an Intensive Care Consultant in St James’ Hospital and he gave Ivan his insights from the frontline.