The Hard Shoulder

Life can be full of confusing things, but no need to worry! Every Wednesday, Simon Tierney will be showing you ‘How to do Stuff’ - bringing his best tips for those things you might not think about.
This week, Simon joins Shane to discuss how to Celebrate success with honour.

Earlier today on the Claire Byrne Show, reporter Alex Rowley revealed that Gardaí missed their target of 75 new Roads Policing Gardaí in 2024, and have also missed their new target of 150 members going into the unit in 2025
Just 79 Gardaí have been appointed, which included just 23 in 2024 and 56 last year. That’s a shortfall of 71 gardai.
This comes after an increase in road deaths in 2025 which saw 188 people lose their lives on our roads
Meghan Scully is a broadcaster and road safety advocate and joined Shane in Studio

James Lawless, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. TD for Kildare North joined Shane to discuss the changes coming to housing legislation and ongoing issues in the market. Aswell as plans to third level tution fees by 500 euros.

Now, if you have been keeping up with the Winter Olympics this week you may have noticed a particularly peculiar moment after Tuesday’s biathlon... where medalist Sturla Holm Laegreid made a bizarre public confession to his girlfriend about cheating on her, while also publicly asking for a second chance.
Joining Shane was Relationship Expert from Two's Company, Jennifer Haskins

For this week’s Tech Takeover, Jess Kelly, Newstalk’s Technology Correspondent, joins Shane to explain Prompt Cowboy. Generative AI tools are now being used by many to increase our productivity. But sometimes are prompts can be poor, leading to poor results. Prompt Cowboy is a website that helps us create prompts for generative AI that are clearer and more precise, meaning the results we get from AI is often better.