The Hard Shoulder

The Hoxton Hotel, a new hotel on Dublin’s Exchequer Street is seeking an injunction over music noise levels from an adjoining restaurant and late night music venue, Yamamori Izakaya. The hotel is alleging that noise has resulted in the closure of 31 of its 129 bedrooms and wants further acoustic protection installed by Yamamori. But, where does the onus lie when it comes to noise in city centre developments? And is noise just something that has to be accepted in a city centre?
Ray O’Donoghue is Dublin City’s Night Time Economy Advisor and Andrea Horan is the Owner of Tropical Popical nail salon. They join Ciara to discuss.

Today marks the release of ‘Inside America’s Next Top Model’ on Netflix, a three part documentary that pulls the curtain back on the dark side of the reality show…
Shane is joined by Holly Carpenter, Social Media Content Creator and Model, to discuss.
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For this week’s Kids Clinic, Ciara is joined by Siobhan O’Neill White of Mams.ie to discuss the always tricky subject of sleepovers!

Sinn Féin politicians including party leader Mary Lou McDonald will not be attending the White House in the United States, continuing last year’s decision.
Mick Clifford, Special Correspondent with The Irish Examiner joins Shane to discuss.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance and murders of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob have today begun searching open ground near the Wicklow / Kildare border.
Ciara is joined by Barry Cummins, Author of Missing and RTÉ journalist for the latest.