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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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0:07:51

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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0:43:15

On the banks of the Maigue

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2025/05/03

Countrywide's bank holiday weekend special, on the banks of the river Maigue in Limerick.

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0:08:57

Chocolate making in County Wexford

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2025/04/19

Bean and Goose is a bean-to-bar chocolate company in County Wexford, founded by Natalie and Karen Keane.

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0:07:27

Citizen Scientists

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2025/04/19

With 73,000 kilometres of rivers, measuring water quality is a large exercise for the EPA and the Local Authorities. UCD decided to enlist the help of citizen scientists, supported by LAWPRO, the local authorities water programme.

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0:07:45

New homes for hundreds of flying raptors in Sligo

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2025/04/19

For the past 25 years the Irish Raptor Research Centre in Sligo put on daily displays of eagles, hawks, falcons and vultures. But now the centre is set to close.

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0:09:06

FarmBioNet, a new knowledge network focusing on...

CountryWide ·

2025/04/19

Thirty people have already signed up to participate in FarmBioNet, a new knowledge network focusing on nature on the farm, including dairy farmers’ James and Rachel Creighton. Brenda Donohue visited them on their farm on the Wicklow-Kildare border.

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0:04:07

Finding comfort in nature

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2025/04/19

On Easter weekend five years ago, at the start of the pandemic we played a recording made by Ella McSweeney at the farmhouse kitchen table of the Kentucky farmer and poet Wendell Berry. It was of his poem about finding comfort in nature in uncertain times.

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0:06:05

When electricity came to farmhouse kitchens

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2025/04/19

When power arrived into farm kitchens, they were transformed, and that is a subject that caught Rosemary Hartigan Hayes' imagination some years ago. She is giving a talk next week in the Agricultural Museum in Johnstown Castle in County Wexford.

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0:44:39

Countrywide Full Episode 19/04/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/04/19

Countrywide Full Episode 19/04/2025

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0:07:25

Macra elections 2025-2027

CountryWide ·

2025/04/05

Brenda Donohue captures how the results for the Macra elections unfolded at the Irish Farm Centre in Bluebell.

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0:16:34

Impact of Trump tariffs on Irish agriculture

CountryWide ·

2025/04/05

Small business-owner, who harvests seasweed, talks about how the tariffs might affect her and Farmers Journal Agri-Business Editor Lorcan Roche Kelly estimates what we might be the consequences.

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0:09:23

A 6,000-year-old farming calendar in Sligo

CountryWide ·

2025/04/05

Farmer Leo Lyden, talks about a millennia-old dolmen he found on his farm on the Maugherow peninsula in Sligo that lines up with the rising sun on both the spring and autumn equinoxes.

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0:13:30

GAA impact in New York

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2025/04/05

How has GAA fostered a strong sense of Irish-American community in the United States that goes beyond the sport.

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0:03:21

Mothers day Essay

CountryWide ·

2025/03/29

Margaret Leahy on her Mother’s Day outing to Croke park

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0:07:12

Turtle on a beach

CountryWide ·

2025/03/29

Ten year old Jonathan Padden was walking on Blacksod Beach in Mayo when he spotted a Turtle in need of care. Jonathan was quick to the rescue!

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0:08:00

Museum of Time

CountryWide ·

2025/03/29

At the Museum of Time in Waterford City, every single one of the 600 clocks must be manually put forward an hour for daylight savings.

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0:20:13

Nature Restoration Panel

CountryWide ·

2025/03/29

The first of the Nature Restoration forums began this week, we hosted a panel hearing about some of the concerns of those involved. On the panel was Dr Aoibhinn Ni Suilleabhain, Vincent Roddy is President of the INHFA, Niamh Garvey is from NESC,Caroline Bocquel CEO of Bord Iascaigh Mhara and Dr Jimmy O’Keeffe from Natural Capital Ireland.

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0:06:11

Training for Wildfires

CountryWide ·

2025/03/29

In any normal year there will be 2,500 wildfires in Ireland. About 500 of them will be big. This week in the Wicklow Hills there was a massive exercise as fire services, coast guard, National Parks and all the other first responders were assessed by the European Commission.

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0:10:08

Lambing ewes with an organic farmer

CountryWide ·

2025/03/22

Countrywide spent a few hours in the company of Tipperary organic farmer Maurice Leamy in the middle of lambing his 200 ewes.

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0:12:36

Ráth Chairn Gaeltacht i gContae na Mi

CountryWide ·

2025/03/22

Celebrating 90 years since families moved to Contae na Mi from the Gaeltacht. (for copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this interview cannot be made available in the podcast)

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