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CountryWide

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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The demise of small abattoirs

CountryWide ·

2025/08/23

The demise of small abattoirs around the country has been decades in the making, but farmers producing small quantities of meat for local consumption in independent shops can’t exist without them. And yet they continue to close.

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0:05:02

The Rural Cycling Collective

CountryWide ·

2025/08/23

If you’re a child in rural Ireland, will it ever be an option for you to cycle safely to school? The Rural Cycling Collective, which is part of the Irish Cycling Campaign, want rural roads to become safe again for cyclists. More on cyclist.ie

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0:11:19

Roscommon entrepreneur John Stapleton

CountryWide ·

2025/08/23

Ella McSweeney speaks to entrepreneur, investor and food king, Roscommon’s John Stapleton. Go to johnstapleton.eu for more information.

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0:13:31

A New Yorker returns to a Sligo farm

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2025/08/23

Throughout the country, although the vacant property grant has breathed new life into old, empty homes, plenty still sit untouched. In the town land of Knockbrack in Sligo, a small farm has stood silent for half a century, when teenager Michael O’Hara set off for a new life in Brooklyn, New York in the mid 1970s. But it was never forgotten.

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0:47:17

Countrywide Full Episode 23/08/2025

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2025/08/23

Countrywide Full Episode 23/08/2025.

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0:06:53

Growing seaweed in West Cork

CountryWide ·

2025/08/16

The economy of many coastal communities has changed in recent decades from fishing towards other marine-based industries. Lorna Siggins went to West Cork where seaweed is being grown in baths inside a temperature-controlled building right beside the sea.

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0:08:13

Fuddlefest

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2025/08/16

Preparations are in full swing in Fuddlestown, Co Wexford, for an on-farm local music festival taking place on the last weekend in August. Fuddlefest.ie for more details.

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0:20:00

Harvest 2025

CountryWide ·

2025/08/16

All around the country you might have seen combine harvesters and tractors on the roads and in the fields cutting the crops and bringing them in. Overall, Harvest 2025 is shaping up to be a positive one. The weather has stayed dry and the yields have been good. But as always, it’s a less rosy picture when it comes to the prices…

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0:02:23

Celebrating Irish native rare breed farm animals

CountryWide ·

2025/08/16

On Sunday, the Irish Native Rare Breed Society will have a celebration of all their animals at Bunratty Castle in Clare. On 24th August they’ll be at the Longford Westmeath mart for another event. It’s all part of National Heritage Week which starts tomorrow with thousands of events to celebrate our built, natural and cultural heritage.

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0:47:11

Countrywide Full Episode 16/08/2025

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2025/08/16

Countrywide Full Episode 16/08/2025

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0:08:32

Fears of fish wipeout on the Blackwater river in Cork

CountryWide ·

2025/08/16

Earlier this week, reports emerged of a fish kill on the river Blackwater, initially believed to affect an eight-kilometer stretch between Mallow and Roskeen Bridge.

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0:11:05

Chef d'équipe Michael Blake on the Aga Khan Trophy

CountryWide ·

2025/08/09

The centre piece of the Dublin Horse Show is the Nations Cup for the Aga Khan Trophy. The man behind the Irish team is Michael Blake from Tuamgraney.

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0:08:59

The Cat Candy

CountryWide ·

2025/08/09

The Cat Candy is a tan and white pony, owned by David Kelly, and ridden by 11 year old Freya Kavanagh. This year, it is competing in Class 93 - The Working Hunter Pony (Starter Stakes). What kind of preparation does it take to be selected to enter this ring?

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0:06:15

What becomes of retired racehorses?

CountryWide ·

2025/08/09

For quite a few years, the Sport Horse industry has been trying to help the Racehorse industry with one of its knottiest problems. What becomes of retired racehorses?

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0:06:01

Class 93 - The Working Hunter Pony

CountryWide ·

2025/08/09

Throughout the programme, we keep an eye on Class 93 - The Working Hunter Pony (Starter Stakes).

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0:10:37

Breeder Mary McCann

CountryWide ·

2025/08/09

Mary McCann is something of a legend in Sport Horse circles, having bred some of the most successful showjumpers in the history of the sport. She brought horses to the Dublin Horse Show every year since 1956.

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0:03:05

An essay by Janet Heeran

CountryWide ·

2025/08/09

Janet Heeran writes about life as it unfolds on her husband's farm and in the classroom where she teaches. Here she remembers the 1954 Dublin Horse Show.

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0:50:23

Countrywide Full Episode 09/08/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/08/09

Countrywide Full Episode 09/08/2025, live from the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS.

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0:14:42

Farmers step up to protect the corncrake on Inishbofin

CountryWide ·

2025/08/02

For the corncrake today, Ireland is a hostile place. In response to the threat of their extinction here, just under €6 million in public funding was allocated a few years ago in a project aimed at helping the corncrake survive. One of the places involved was Inishbofin, off the coast of Galway.

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0:10:26

On a walking trail in Mayo

CountryWide ·

2025/08/02

Back in 2008, the Walks Scheme was set up to help open up more walking routes across the country on private land. Last weekend, about 7,000 people made the climb up Croagh Patrick. But beyond the Reek, there’s a lot more Mayo offers, including the Clogher–Newtown Forest Trail. https://www.sportireland.ie/outdoors/find-your-trails

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