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Mooney Goes Wild

Derek Mooney and guests explore the natural world in all its forms. Listen live every Monday at 10pm on RTÉ Radio 1.

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0:23:24

Marymount Hospital

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/22

Researcher Michèle Browne travelled to Marymount University Hospital and Hospice in Cork to see an innovative programme where wildlife in is playing a key role in enhancing the well-being of patients, including those in the end-stages of life.

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0:10:22

Nature Notes from the Mooney archive

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2024/01/22

We revisit three of these Nature Notes with the people who wrote them, all of whom will be very familiar to regular Mooney Goes Wild listeners.

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0:52:52

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/22

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch. Topics for discussion include birds in stormy weather, Jays, inedble insects, nature notes and wildlife playing a key role in enhancing the well-being of patients

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0:11:29

You’re winding me up: how birds cope with winter storms

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/22

The weather here in Ireland has been pretty turbulent of late, we explore how some species of birds deal with high winds better than others, with those that feed mainly on insects and those that must spend the winter at sea generally finding it hardest.

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0:06:21

Jays and acorns: a never-ending natural cycle

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/22

Jay's key strategy for coping with food shortages due to bad winter weather conditions is to plan ahead. Each autumn, Ireland’s Jays collect and bury vast quantities of acorns.

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0:41:32

Green Hydrogen

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/15

November saw European Hydrogen Week, which gave us the opportunity to speak to Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, CEO of Hydrogen Europe about this exciting new fuel option and what it could mean for our planet.

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0:50:36

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/15

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Michael Sheridan, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch

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0:01:21

Dublin's urban Otter is still in residence

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/15

Terry brings us an update on this magnificent mustelid, which is still thrilling visitors to the busy city park with its spectacular swimming displays and its "otterly" unusual tameness around humans.

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0:05:51

Cattle Egret feeding on a city street

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/15

While on holiday on the Canary Island of Lanzarote recently, our RTÉ colleague Brian Lally sent us a very interesting video he filmed of a bird called a Cattle Egret collecting cockroaches. Terry and Niall discuss these fascinating long-necked, long-legged birds.

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0:00:56

Gearing up for the Great BIG Garden Birdwatch on 5th...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/15

Tune in to RTÉ Radio One from 15:00 this February Bank Holiday Monday to help us celebrate Ireland’s garden birds and the people who survey and conserve them, and don’t forget to let us know what you see on the day.

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0:53:28

The Pigeon

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/01/01

For this New Year's Day, we have a special documentary from our Nature On One series entitled 'The Pigeon'. The programme is presented by Terry Flanagan.

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0:27:31

The Wren

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2023/12/26

Today's Mooney Goes Wild festive special is about a bird that is intimately associated in Irish tradition with St Stephen’s Day: the tiny Wren. As Niall Hatch tells us on tonight’s programme, these feisty little birds punch well above their weight.

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0:58:08

The Twelve Birds of Christmas

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2023/12/25

For this Christmas Day, Derek and the team look at the six avian gifts that feature so prominently in the ever-popular festive song 'The Twelve Birds of Christmas', add six more for good measure and examine the origins of the composition and whether it actually qualifies as a carol or not.

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0:14:08

The Holly and The Ivy

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2023/12/18

On Christmas Day last year, we broadcast a Mooney Goes Wild special all about the two yuletide plants which feature in one of the most popular Christmas carols. One of the traditional Irish musicians who featured on Vanessa Williams' recording was whistle-player Cormac Breatnach. He talks to Derek Mooney and Éanna Ní Lamhna.

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0:02:06

Trees are Good, Trees are Good

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2023/12/18

Nick Coughlan of RTÉ Junior tells us about the latest batch of the Ireland’s Unreal podcast, presented by Hugh Cooney.

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0:01:43

Don’t give pets as presents this Christmas

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2023/12/18

Andrew Byrne of BrayVet in Co. Wicklow highlights one gift that you should definitely not give: a pet

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0:17:33

Something "otterly" unexpected in Herbert Park

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2023/12/18

Nature-enthusiast Gustavo Zoladz and Terry Flanagan admire an otter in an unexpected place, Dublin's Herbert Park.

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0:11:40

Roadkill: a much bigger problem than we thought

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2023/12/18

Michele Browne has been investigating the issue of roadkill for us, with some staggering and deeply concerning results.

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0:53:49

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2023/12/18

Derek is joined by Richard Collins, Gustavo Zoladz, Terry Flanagan, Cormac Breatnach, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Niall Hatch, Michele Browne, Andrew Byrne and Nick Coughlan. Topics for discussion include the original Christmas bird, an otter in Herbert Park and the Wren.

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0:51:47

Mooney Goes Wild Christmas Special

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2023/12/11

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Researcher Michele Browne, Niall Hatch, Terry Flanagan and Richard Collins for this years Chrsitmas Special.

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