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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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6,000 year old farmers

CountryWide ·

2025/06/21

While we marvel at how clever our ancestors were, we don’t talk as much about who they were and how they lived their lives. Associate Professor of pre-history in UCD Jessica Smyth talks about her research shedding light on this topic.

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0:08:18

Connemara Woodland reserve

CountryWide ·

2025/06/21

Take a journey into this mosaic of a forest in County Galway that has relics from both the ancient and the modern world.

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0:07:24

Summer solstice

CountryWide ·

2025/06/21

To understand how the Solstice – and its companion event St John’s Eve bonfire night on Monday - is being marked countrywide Philip speaks to folklorists from Limerick and Cork.

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0:08:13

Connecting with the ocean

CountryWide ·

2025/06/14

Mike Consolini loves the sea, and he also creates music reflecting on the way he connects with the sea.

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0:10:14

Meet the firefighters

CountryWide ·

2025/06/14

There are two thousand retained fire fighters across the country, working from more than 200 local fire stations serving local communities in rural Ireland. They are looking for more members to join their ranks to provide this vital community service.

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0:27:49

How to reduce farming emissions

CountryWide ·

2025/06/14

Two weeks ago the latest set of results showed that if business continues as usual that not only would the climate change target not be met, but that emissions could increase.

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0:08:39

Challenges to Ireland's water systems

CountryWide ·

2025/06/07

Ahead of World ocean day, Micheál Ó Cinnéide, founder of the Blasket Island Foundation, shares his thoughts on water bodies of Ireland and increasing threat of climate change.

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0:11:28

What's happening in County Meath national park

CountryWide ·

2025/06/07

Ella McSweeney travels to Boyne Valley to find out how biodiversity of grasslands is being improved by wildflowers for the soon-to-open national park.

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0:08:57

Fish and rising sea temperature

CountryWide ·

2025/06/07

Marine biologists explain how warming of the seas is going to affect Atlantic salmons.

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0:06:28

How Korean natural farming can yield delicious...

CountryWide ·

2025/06/07

Kevin Wallace of New Leaf Urban Farmers explains how he grew award-winning vegetabes with this unconventional method.

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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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0:14:34

Mentoring at Bloom

CountryWide ·

2025/05/31

Quite a few businesses have approached a mentor for a bit of advice at Bloom.

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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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0:02:28

Trade breakfast

CountryWide ·

2025/05/31

Under the surface there is a lot of business being done at Bloom. On the Friday morning of every Bloom, before the gates open to the public, buyers from all the major retailers have breakfast with food producers looking for shelf space for their wares.

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0:06:54

Judging show gardens at Bloom

CountryWide ·

2025/05/31

Bloom opened to the public on Thursday, but the show gardeners hoping to win prizes have been here days in advance. And on Tuesday the judges saw the gardens for the first time. Then they saw them again on Wednesday, and on Thursday morning, Gold, Silver and Bronze certificates were awarded.

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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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0:03:24

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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0:04:42

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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0:07:29

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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