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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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Early Insights Nitrogen Indicator 2024 report on...

CountryWide ·

2025/03/22

The EPA published water quality figures during the week, with signs that the efforts being taken on some farms to avoid nitrate run off were beginning to show results. Is it enough of an improvement to persuade the 26 other members of the EU that Ireland should continue getting a derogation from pollution controls?

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0:10:08

Lambing ewes with an organic farmer

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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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0:06:53

The risk of Lyme's disease

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2025/03/22

Aoife Rankin contracted Lyme's disease more than ten years ago, and she is currently raising funds to get additional treatment abroad.

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0:46:12

Countrywide Full Episode 22/03/2025

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2025/03/22

Countrywide Full Episode 22/03/2025

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0:45:29

Countrywide Full Episode 15/03/2025

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2025/03/15

Countrywide Full Episode 15/03/2025.

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0:25:35

Forestry, Horticulture: a progress report from...

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2025/03/15

50 days since Storm Éowyn, we get a progress report from the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with special responsibility for Forestry, Farm Safety and Horticulture.

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0:08:37

Sitting Ag Science for the Leaving Cert

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2025/03/15

Following a school tour for Leaving Cert Ag Science students in a farmyard in Offaly.

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0:10:10

Record prices for beef

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2025/03/15

Prices being paid for beef here have hit record levels. A large part of that price shift is because of a sharp fall in supply in the UK.

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0:08:26

Voluntary rewetting scheme

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2025/03/08

Four tonnes of greenhouse gases are seeping out of drained farmland and turf-cut bog, a figure we are legally obliged to make significant cuts to. The government has now embarked on trying to persuade farmers to voluntarily rewet their land to achieve those cuts.

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0:48:35

Countrywide Full Episode 08/03/2025

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2025/03/08

Countrywide Full Episode 08/03/2025.

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0:12:55

Professor Alan Matthews

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2025/03/08

Looking for a roadmap through the polycrisis for food producers and farmers with Professor Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.

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0:08:04

GAA Film Awards in North Cork

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2025/03/08

Tonight, the red carpet will be rolled out in North Cork for the Kildorrery GAA Film Awards. Local enthusiasts have created versions of seven popular movies for tonight's Gala screening and awards ceremony. In doing this, they have raised more than 80,000 euro for their local GAA astro-turf pitch.

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0:09:15

Dr Catherine Farrell

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2025/03/08

Trinity College Dublin botanist, Dr Catherine Farrell, discusses voluntary rewetting.

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0:07:18

Limitless by Nuala Moore

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2025/03/08

Nuala Moore's book Limitless tells her story of swimming around Ireland and abroad, including swimming across the Bering Straits between Alaska and Siberia, and being the first person to navigate Cape Horn by swimming across the meridian from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

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0:12:52

Katherine O'Leary

CountryWide ·

2025/03/01

Last year Brenda visited Katherine O'Leary on the farm in Cork as she was recuperating from cancer treatment. Unfortunately, since then she's had bad news, but as you will hear Brenda dropped in again this week and Katherine is resilient, surrounded by a loving family.

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0:09:55

Sinn Féin's agriculture policy

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2025/03/01

Philip Boucher-Hayes asks Spokesperson on Agriculture and Rural development Martin Kenny TD, how his party's agriculture policy differs from the government's.

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0:46:23

Countrywide Full Episode 01/03/2025

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2025/03/01

Countrywide Full Episode 01/03/2025

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0:10:44

Heritage Council Grant

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2025/03/01

How the Heritage Council has helped some of the farmyards in the country to restore tumbledown farm buildings.

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0:11:20

Will vaccinating birds prevent avian flu?

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2025/03/01

While the threat of Avian flu persists, will vaccinating provide a solution? Professor Gerald Barry from University College Dublin explains.

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0:09:39

Changes around calving

CountryWide ·

2025/02/22

Professor Frank O'Mara explains how the life of a calf born in 2005 differs from one born in 2025.

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