The Opening Ceremony of the Olympics took place this morning, and for the next two weeks there’ll be armchair experts all over the country watching diving, hockey, table tennis, gymnastics...

Three-time Olympian, two-time Bronze medal winner Paddy Barnes and John Treacy the CEO of the Irish Sport Council, and also a silver medal winner for the marathon in 1984, joined Kieran on The Hard Shoulder...

The Hard Shoulder

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