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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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Varadkar "sounds like a follower rather than a leader" - Nigel Farage on Ireland's lockdown

Leo Varadkar should consider those seeing their lives destroyed by continuous lockdown before criticising Britain’s reopening, according to Nigel Farage. The former Brexit Party leader was reacting after the Tánaiste said the UK’s Freedom Day plan was ‘too risky’ and warned that it could have a spill-over effect in Ireland. Mr Farage told Kieran  that it is now time for countries to learn to live with COVID-19 – warning that lockdown has led us to a point where “the cure is now worse than the disease.”