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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.
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Local Election Candidate faces racial abuse
A local election candidate for Artane-Whitehall in Dublin Linkwinstar Mattatil Matthew
was forced to take down election posters on Friday night after being harassed, intimidated and subjected to a barrage of racist abuse.
Linkwinstar Mattatil Matthew is with Kieran to share his story… -
PJ Gallagher and Mental Health Awareness
Comedian PJ Gallagher becomes a mental health warrior in a new RTÉ documentary called ‘Changing My Mind’, which explores mental health in Ireland. It’s airing on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player on Monday 20th May at 9.35pm.
Kieran is joined with PJ to delve into his personal experiences, insights and the powerful message PJ Gallagher hopes to spread about mental health awareness. -
Businesses react to Dublin City transport plan
The business lobby group IBEC has called for an “immediate pause” to the implementation of Dublin City Council’s transport plan
Kieran is joined by some business owners in the city: owner of Skechers stores around the country and Asics on Henry Street, Paul Gallagher and Sales Manager at Sweeney & O’Rourke, catering showroom located on Pearse Street, Paul Woodborne. -
Kids Health Check: Sun Care
This week in our Kid's Health Check, Dr Suzanne Crowe, Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at Crumlin Children’s Hospital joined Kieran to discuss how to protect your children’s skin in the sun.
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European Elections: Brendan Ogle, Sinead Gibney & Ciaran Cuffe
Now it is just over 2 and a half weeks until Ireland goes to the polls in the Local and European elections.
Last week we met many of the candidates in the Ireland South Constituency – this week we are turning our attention to the Dublin Constituency.
We will here from more of the candidates later in the week, but today Kieran is joined by:
Brendan Ogle - Independent Candidate in the European Elections.
Sinead Gibney - Social Democrats Candidate in the European Elections.
Ciaran Cuffe - Green Party MEP and Candidate in the European Elections. -
Ed Byrne’s Tragedy Plus Time: When can you joke?
Kieran’s guest is an Irish Comedian, Actor and Presenter who takes his new tour ‘Tragedy Plus Time’ to Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Kilkenny and Galway this June.
Ed Byrne joins Kieran to discuss what the tour is about, and how long we should wait before making a joke about certain topics.