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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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0:04:55

Inside knowledge from Tidy Town judges

CountryWide ·

2025/05/31

From next Saturday, Tidy Town judges will start visiting the 900 or so communities who have entered the competition. They will know not the day nor the hour when an incognito judge will turn up. Dr Christy Boylan is a long standing judge and trainer of judges of the Tidy Towns, at Bloom to share some inside knowledge.

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0:06:02

Killadoon Milk's first trip to Bloom

CountryWide ·

2025/05/31

Killadoon Milk use the milk from their cross bred jersey cows to supply a network of vending machines in the east of the country. Ella McSweeney visited Martin Donovan at Killadoon Estate near Celbridge in County Kildare in his rotary milk parlour.

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0:40:54

Countrywide Bloom Special

CountryWide ·

2025/05/31

Countrywide Bloom Special (For copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this programme cannot be made available in the podcast)

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0:10:04

Farm Labour

CountryWide ·

2025/05/24

Farming would grind to a halt were it not for a skilled, mobile and flexible relief workforce. But who are these men and women? What motivates them if their reward is not going to be a share in, or ownership of the farm they are working on?

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0:04:42

Putting the ups and downs of farming to music

CountryWide ·

2025/05/24

Keith Brennan, who regularly shares his observations of life and nature on his family farm, has put the ups and downs of farming life to music.

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0:04:15

Nesting time for curlews

CountryWide ·

2025/05/24

It is nesting time for curlews in areas like that bog in Laois and the ones devastated in Roscommon. Clodagh Helen was conducting a survey of curlew nesting sites on Monday night as one of those fires took hold.

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0:07:07

Impact of dry weather on bog fires

CountryWide ·

2025/05/24

We visit the scene of a recent fire bog fire, started by fly tippers, but exaggerated by the dry weather.

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0:07:12

Endangered cows in Mayo

CountryWide ·

2025/05/24

We meet members of the Bó Riabhach Cattle Society, who are passionate about native Irish breeds. Picture from https://boriabhachsociety.ie/

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0:07:29

A French potager garden in Laois

CountryWide ·

2025/05/24

Dunmore Country School in Durrow, County Laois has created a French 'potager' garden. Picture from https://www.dunmorecountryschool.ie/

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0:46:11

Countrywide Full Episode 24.05.25

CountryWide ·

2025/05/24

Countrywide Full Episode 24.05.25

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0:03:24

Petrichor

CountryWide ·

2025/05/24

Petrichor is the name of the unmistakable earthy, musty scent with a hint of moss, that always comes with freshly fallen rain after a long dry spell.

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0:05:45

Should we plant trees on bogs?

CountryWide ·

2025/05/17

Experts gathered this week in Ennistymon, Co Clare for the Hometree Changing Landscapes conference, exploring new ideas about nature conservation, including Junior Minister Healy-Rae’s proposal to plant trees on bogs.

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0:09:19

A visit to Coppenagh House Farm

CountryWide ·

2025/05/17

Countrywide visited a 60-acre beef farm in Tullow Co Carlow, which is also a one-stop-shop for everything from Wagyu beef boxes to yoga, and their own country fashion clothing brand. Visit https://coppenaghfarm.ie/ for more information.

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0:09:58

What is the quintessential scent of Ireland?

CountryWide ·

2025/05/17

Ireland has an official scent, nominated by the government, for inclusion in a project to create a global archive of smells. A quarter century ago, the government decided that our official smell would be 'Burning Turf'. But we are now looking to update our signature scent. Cast your vote on https://worldsensorium.com/

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0:08:17

Balmoral Show

CountryWide ·

2025/05/17

Beef and dairy farmers in Northern Ireland are enjoying the same kind of price boon their colleagues south of the border are getting. And this week just outside Belfast, the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society is running Balmoral Show.

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0:07:18

Connecting Cabra Biodiversity Festival

CountryWide ·

2025/05/17

Connecting Cabra Biodiversity Festival starts at 1pm today, to mark National Biodiversity Week.

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0:44:09

Countrywide Full Episode 17/05/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/05/17

Countrywide Full Episode 17/05/2025

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0:07:51

Áine Ní Dhroighneáin's flower farm

CountryWide ·

2025/05/10

A teacher by profession, Áine Ní Dhroighneáin, took a sabbatical last year to focus on farm flowers. She speaks with Treasa Bhreathnach on what inspired her to make the move.

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0:08:26

Robert McFarlane on rivers

CountryWide ·

2025/05/10

British writer talks about what inspired him to write his latest book 'Is A River Alive'.

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0:22:56

TB eradication among animals

CountryWide ·

2025/05/10

A team vaccinating healthy badgers and culling diseased ones to try and stem the spread of the disease speak to Philip Boucher-Hayes and Minister for agriculture Martin Heydon shares details of TB eradication programme and its cost.

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