Episodes

  • The Last Post: Jo-Carroll Dennison

    The Last Post: Jo-Carroll Dennison
    Nov 3 2021
    Every Wednesday here on the Hard Shoulder on Newstalk we bring you The Last Post. Where we hear about the life of someone who has recently died but you have probably never heard of...  John Kelleher, tells Kieran about Jo-Carroll Dennison former Miss America, 97... The Hard Shoulder 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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    13 mins
  • The Last Post: Dave Severance

    The Last Post: Dave Severance
    Sep 1 2021
    Dave Severance was a United States Marine Corps colonel. During World War II, he served as the commanding officer of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines and led his company in the battle of Iwo Jima. Kieran found out all about him on The Last Post.
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    15 mins
  • The Last Post: Jean Binta Breeze

    The Last Post: Jean Binta Breeze
    Aug 25 2021
    Every week John Kelleher joins the show for The Last Post, this week John discusses Jean Binta Breeze Jamaican poet who died aged 65... The Hard Shoulder 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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    14 mins
  • The Last Post: Faye Schulman

    The Last Post: Faye Schulman
    May 12 2021
    This week on The Last Post, John Kelleher told us about the life of Faye Schulman, a woman who fought and photographed the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust and who died recently at the age of 101. The Hard Shoulder 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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    13 mins
  • The Last Post: Peter Warner

    The Last Post: Peter Warner
    Apr 28 2021
    Every Wednesday on the Hard Shoulder, we bring you The Last Post - where we hear about the life of someone who has recently died but you have probably never heard of... Today, John Kelleher told us all about Australian seafarer Peter Warner, who rescued six shipwrecked boys from Tonga, who had survived for eighteen months on a desert island in the South Pacific. Picture: Peter Warner (third left) with his crew: David, John, Luke, Bill, Stephen, Jim, Kolo and Mano in 1968. Photograph: John Raymond/Fairfax Media
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    16 mins
  • The Last Post: Howard Weitzman

    The Last Post: Howard Weitzman
    Apr 21 2021
    Every Wednesday on the Hard Shoulder, we bring you The Last Post - where we hear about the life of someone who has recently died but you have probably never heard of... Today, John Kelleher told us all about defence lawyer to the stars Howard Weitzman. The Hard Shoulder 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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    15 mins
  • The Last Post: Charles Hill

    The Last Post: Charles Hill
    Mar 24 2021
    Every Wednesday on the Hard Shoulder, we bring you The Last Post - where we hear about the life of someone who has recently died but you have probably never heard of...  John Kelleher joined Kieran Cuddihy to tell him all about Charles Hill, A Scotland Yard British Detective, who was at the centre of recovering ‘The Scream’  a masterpiece painting by Edvard Munch which was painted in 1893 who died recently at the age of 73. 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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    16 mins
  • The Last Post: Issac Shoshan

    The Last Post: Issac Shoshan
    Jan 20 2021
    In this weeks Last Post John Kelleher takes look back at the life of Issac Shoshan an Iraeli Spy who posed as an Arab, who died recently at the age of 96.
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    13 mins