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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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0:09:19

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?

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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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0:07:51

Áine Ní Dhroighneáin's flower farm

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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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0:03:37

Writer Janet Heeran on her childhood

CountryWide ·

2025/05/10

Janet Heeran, who lives in a farm on the side of a mountain in North Cork, was reminded of her own childhood after an encounter with a group of eager six-year-olds.

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0:22:56

TB eradication among animals

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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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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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0:43:15

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

CountryWide ·

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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0:06:05

When electricity came to farmhouse kitchens

CountryWide ·

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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0:09:06

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

CountryWide ·

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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0:07:45

New homes for hundreds of flying raptors in Sligo

CountryWide ·

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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0:44:39

Countrywide Full Episode 19/04/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/04/19

Countrywide Full Episode 19/04/2025

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0:07:27

Citizen Scientists

CountryWide ·

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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0:16:34

Impact of Trump tariffs on Irish agriculture

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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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0:07:25

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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0:09:23

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

CountryWide ·

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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0:08:00

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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0:06:11

Training for Wildfires

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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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