CountryWide
RTÉ Radio 1
100 episodes
The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across Ireland. Listen live Saturdays at 8am on RTÉ Radio 1.
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Rambling House
Every rural parish had homes where the latch was never down. They were called rambling houses, and they were a deeply held tradition in rural Ireland, helping bond communities. It’s a tradition that’s being celebrated…
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Uplands and Commonage
We’ll begin on the hills and it’s about commonage - land own between farmers. Roughly 400,000 hectares of farmland is held under commonage, and it can become some of the richest habitat in the country. Managing it well…
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Countrywide Full Episode 08/08/26
Countrywide Full Episode 08/08/26 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Water Shortages (continued)
It's not only Malcolm's farm affected, it's playing out on other farms, mainly in the south and southeast. So what does this actually mean for farmers, and how do you make a farm more resilient to to extremes -…
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Offshore Wind Farms
Five new wind farms are waiting on planning approval in the Irish Sea and it appears that the sites line up with some of the best fishing grounds on the east coast. So it's no great surprise that fishermen are worried,…
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Water Shortages
In 2018, a summer drought hit Ireland hard, and farmers were counting the cost of it for months afterwards. This year, it's happening all over again. July was the driest on record, so what does this mean for dairy…
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Little Terns
The season is nearly at an end for Ireland's smallest and rarest seabirds, Little Terns, and they'll soon be off on their journey south back to Africa. As they nest on the ground, they're extremely vulnerable to…
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Dublin Horse Show 2026
It's been one hundred years since Irish Army officers first jumped for their country, and now we are looking at how they’re marking the centenary at this week's Dublin Horse Show in the RDS. Suzanne Campbell reports.…
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The River Shannon: Part 2
We continue our River Shannon special, and Regan Hutchins also chats to Donal Boland about life living on the Shannon, on a boat in Co Offaly. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The River Shannon: Part 1
Today's programme is a River Shannon special as we hear about the life along the river. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Farming and mental health in Ireland
Louise McHugh is a professor of psychology and the deputy head in the school of psychology at UCD, and she’s been involved in researching mental health and suicide in the farming community in Ireland. If you've been…
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ECO-UNESCO'S Eco-Choices
ECO-UNESCO, Ireland's environmental education and youth organisation has built a whole programme around the idea that time outdoors is good for us. It's called ECO-Choices, and it uses nature-based activities and…
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The Green Loy
The loy is a long, narrow spade that broke hard ground for generations. A new exhibition at The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon takes the loy as its starting point. The Green Loy is curated to make a quiet case that the…
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Croke Patrick Stakeholders
Tomorrow is Reek Sunday - when thousands of people will make their way up Croagh Patrick. Over ten years ago, Martin Keating decided to do something about the increasing number of feet taking its toll on the mountain.…
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Countrywide Full Episode 18/07/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 18/07/2026 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Sheep Show Podcast
The Sheep Show podcast is a weekly podcast both presenters are sheep farmers, but the twist is they are brother and sister, and the double twist is he - Andrew - is farming in Longford and she – Jill - is farming 150…
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The Galway Sheep
Today at Athenry Mart, President Connolly will be at the 6th national harvest of wool. It’s a meitheal organised by the Galway Wool Co-op. There will be shearing and spinning demonstrations and examples of soft wool…
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Wool Logs
It costs farmers more to shear sheep than they get for wool, as we haven’t scaled up uses for wool in Ireland. Now, in order to re-wet bogs and block drains, farmers have been making water repellent Irish sheep wool…
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Keith Brennan
On Hawthorn Hill Farm in North Roscommon, Keith Brennan has been shearing his sheep. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Wool Shearing
Charles Hughes, sheep farmer in Co Mayo tells Philip all about the process of shearing sheep in the current hot climate we're experiencing. However, imagine being the farmer who has to pay for this knowing that in the…
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Countrywide Full Episode 11/07/26
Countrywide Full Episode 11/07/26 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Longford Island farmer
For generations, the Farrell family has farmed Inis Cloithreann Island on Lough Ree, continuing a tradition that stretches back more than 900 years. Today, Longford farmer and primary school principal Herbert Farrell…
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Climate Adaptation
What does being well adapted to occasional blasts of this kind of heat look like? While simultaneously being adapted to increasing blasts of heavy rainfall? Philip spoke to farmer Michael Guinan in Rahan in Offaly to…
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Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann
Ahead of Comhaltas Ceolteori Eireann’s 75th anniversary, we had a couple of the island's best musicians in studio: Robert Harvey on Whistling and flute, Aoife Vaughan on Flute, Cathal O Duibhir Baoil on Concertina, and…
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Raspberries
The Conroy family have been growing raspberries for 75 years pretty close to the foot of the Sugarloaf, and unlike most soft fruit producers in Ireland, they have been making it work outdoors all that time and not…
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Denis Drennan
Denis Drennan, president of the ICMSA discusses the impact that the ever changing climate is having on Ireland's agricultural sector. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Heat Stress on Farms
We looked at challenges farmers are facing , dairy farmers in particular as they try to look after animals that were not designed for these temperatures and adapt to climate shifts. Vet Ryan Duffy works with Animal…
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Countrywide Full Episode 04/07/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 04/07/2026 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Nitrate leaching
A Dáil Committee heard this week that the things farmers whose land is free draining are being advised to do will catch phosphate but won’t stop nitrate from polluting rivers. Pat Dillon from the agricultural research…
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Water quality on farms
The long-awaited Land Use Review said in clear words that the way we are using land does not safeguard water. does not safeguard water. And a few weeks ago 43% of farms inspected for water quality compliance failed the…
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Pollardstown Fen
The amount of water we are taking out of our underground aquifers and rivers is increasingly an issue, but what happens when a well suddenly runs dry for 6 months, and then reappears? Betty O’Shea has devoted a…
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Fish Kill
Professor Fiona Regan, Director of of DCU's Water Institute reacts to and discusses the protocols being outlined by Minister Dooley. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Blackwater River Fish Kill
The Blackwater River Fish Kill last August was the largest fish kill ever in Ireland, and the person or people were never found. This week, Timmy Dooley, Minister with responsibility for fisheries published a new set…
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Stone Lifting
David Keohan, is a man on an archaeological quest to discover Ireland’s ancient lifting stones and revive a sport and culture – Stone Lifting – that has almost been erased from the landscape entirely. See…
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Countrywide Full Episode 27/06/26
Countrywide Full Episode 27/06/26 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Granuaile
Lorna Siggins visits an all woman aerial circus production of the story of Grace O’Malley or Granuaile with the truly spectacular backdrop of the old pirate queen’s stomping ground of Clew Bay. See…
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Egg Vending
Week after week on Countrywide we feature farmers who are trying to bypass the middlemen and sell their product directly to consumers. The big problem they all have in common is they either find themselves tied to a…
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Generational Renewal
A complicated problem we are facing in Farming is how to get younger people taking over the reins. Generational Renewal is the short hand. Our reporter Suzanne Campbell went in the company of some Nuffield Scholars to…
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Countrywide Full Episode 20/06/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 20/06/2026 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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War Zone Farmers
Farmers here have a lot to contend with. This morning we looked at what farming is like in a number of countries affected by war and climate change; Sudan, Lebanon, Ukraine. Given what the agronomists, the supply chain…
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The Inishkea Islands
National Parks and Wildlife Service has taken the precaution of appointing a warden to make sure visitors know how to tread softly on the Inishkea Islands. And Ella McSweeney took a rib out to Inishkea south and was…
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Meitheal
Keith Brennan, on Hawthorn Hill Farm in Roscommon, reflects on the power of Meitheal, and therefore found putting his back in to a shared job of work on a neighbour’s land helpful. See omnystudio.com/listener for…
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Peat Extraction
The European Commission is not happy about what we haven’t done to protect our bogs. They say we have failed to stop large scale commercial peat extraction. So Ireland is getting sued, again. While we have done a bad…
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Booleying
Grass growth has been rampant in the last few weeks, with quite a few farms pushing into surplus. It’s a time of year where that kind of growth means booleying can come into its own. A livestock management tradition…
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Peat Alternatives
Looking at the bogs a bit more closely, where are we at in developing completely peat free alternative composts so that we can stop cutting up bogs to grow food? Teagasc, the agricultural research agency is in the…
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Making Farms Work for Women
'Making Farms Work for Women' is a pilot project that's looking at the reality of farming for women and at the challenges they face. Over the three year life of the project they'll be working with 60 women farmers in…
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Irish Wild Honeybees
Swarming season is in full swing across the country. Queen bees are leaving their nests, allowing developing queens to inherit their thrones. There has been a long running campaign and draft legislation to ensure…
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Whats in a birdsong?
Ornithologist, Sean Ronayne, on how important Marine Protection Areas are for Seabirds and his passion for capturing bird sounds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Fair Seas Conference panel
Speakers at the Fair Seas Conference 2026 on MPAs: Minna Epps - IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Belinda Bramley - UK marine protection expert, Grace Carr - Marine policy officer at the Irish…
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Do Marine Protected Areas work?
Marine Biologist, Ben Harris, has scientific evidence that MPAs work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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