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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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Harmony in Connemara

CountryWide ·

2025/09/13

Music Network has been bringing live music performances to venues in towns and villages across the country for decades, fostering interesting collaborations. Such as this collaboration between traditional pianist Ryan Molloy and sean nos singers Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta. (For copyright reasons full musical tracks are not available here)

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0:03:45

An essay by Maura McElhone

CountryWide ·

2025/09/13

Maura, from Co Derry, married a farmer from Leinster and now lives on the farm in Kildare. This morning she tells us about the changing seasons of her life as her eldest child begins school.

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0:09:19

Reducing the amount of pesticides going in to lakes...

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

Uisce Éireann is running a pilot project to reduce the amount of pesticides going in to lakes and rivers. They think it will be easier in the long run for them to stop pesticides getting in to our drinking water than it is for them to have to take them out.

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0:10:44

Turtles in Irish waters

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

The temperatures of waters off the west coast of Ireland have been heating up, resulting in a lot of changes to marine life. Six months ago, we heard from ten year-old Jonathan Padden from North Mayo, who found a tiny loggerhead turtle on An Fál Mór beach in Blacksod Bay.

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0:48:05

Countrywide Full Episode 06/09/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

Countrywide Full Episode 06/09/2025.

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0:07:58

A farmer on TikTok

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

Fin Walsh is a dairy farmer from Patrickswell, Co Limerick who has amassed over 150,000 TikTok followers, with posts about daily life on the farm.

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0:13:52

Supporting women entrepreneurs with the ACORNS programme

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

ACORNS (Accelerating the Creation Of Rural Nascent Start-ups) is a free initiative for early-stage female entrepreneurs based in rural Ireland. Central to its popularity is the idea that early-stage entrepreneurs learn best from their peers.

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0:05:07

Dr Dara Stanley on pesticide use

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

Dr Dara Stanley, Associate Professor in Applied Entomology in the School of Agriculture and Food Science, and Earth Institute, at UCD.

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0:16:47

Minister Michael Healy-Rae

CountryWide ·

2025/08/30

Countrywide speaks to Michael Healy-Rae, 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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0:07:19

The Spindle Tree turns red

CountryWide ·

2025/08/30

If you go down to the woods today, particularly the woodland created by John Normanly in County Sligo, you are sure to see all manner of wild life. Together with his wife Maria, John has worked for more than twenty years to transform his fourteen hectare farm into a mixed forest with mostly oak trees, some larch and spruce and some beech trees.

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0:06:49

Restoring the Ash tree in the Irish landscape

CountryWide ·

2025/08/30

The fungus that causes Ash trees to die arrived here in 2012, with devastating consequences for 90% of the population. But now scientists have been investigating what was going on with the 10% of trees that will remain healthy, and they think that might hold the answer to how to restore the Ash in Ireland.

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0:06:44

A milk churn time capsule unearthed in Ballsbridge

CountryWide ·

2025/08/30

In 1988 the Guild of Agricultural Journalists put together a time capsule in a milk churn. Inside, they placed articles of the day from the main Irish newspapers and the farming press, plus brochures for machinery, and that piece of radio archive. This week the padlocked churn was opened in the RDS at a gathering of agricultural journalists.

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0:47:40

Countrywide Full Episode 30/08/2025

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2025/08/30

Countrywide Full Episode 30/08/2025

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0:08:48

Inside the Gate: Farming for Nature's Open Farm Day

CountryWide ·

2025/08/30

The people at Farming For Nature have asked 21 of their farming ambassadors all around the country to open the gates to the public tomorrow for guided farm walks. Countrywide did just that during the week, and visited a farm outside Maynooth in Co Kildare.

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0:08:06

On board a traditional barge travelling along the...

CountryWide ·

2025/08/23

Countrywide decided to hop on board a traditional barge which travels along the Grand Canal from Sallins in Kildare, joining other passengers to explore the nature in and along the waterway and guided by Chris McKenna. For more, go to bargetrip.ie

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0:13:31

A New Yorker returns to a Sligo farm

CountryWide ·

2025/08/23

Throughout the country, although the vacant property grant has breathed new life into old, empty homes, plenty still sit untouched. In the town land of Knockbrack in Sligo, a small farm has stood silent for half a century, when teenager Michael O’Hara set off for a new life in Brooklyn, New York in the mid 1970s. But it was never forgotten.

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0:08:19

The demise of small abattoirs

CountryWide ·

2025/08/23

The demise of small abattoirs around the country has been decades in the making, but farmers producing small quantities of meat for local consumption in independent shops can’t exist without them. And yet they continue to close.

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0:47:17

Countrywide Full Episode 23/08/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/08/23

Countrywide Full Episode 23/08/2025.

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0:05:02

The Rural Cycling Collective

CountryWide ·

2025/08/23

If you’re a child in rural Ireland, will it ever be an option for you to cycle safely to school? The Rural Cycling Collective, which is part of the Irish Cycling Campaign, want rural roads to become safe again for cyclists. More on cyclist.ie

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0:11:19

Roscommon entrepreneur John Stapleton

CountryWide ·

2025/08/23

Ella McSweeney speaks to entrepreneur, investor and food king, Roscommon’s John Stapleton. Go to johnstapleton.eu for more information.

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