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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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0:15:19

Bluetongue Virus

CountryWide ·

2025/12/06

BBC Farming Journalist Anna Hill reports on the impacts of two years of the virus in England and Wales. Dept of Agriculture deputy chief veterinary officer, Dr Eoin Ryan, on what will happen if the virus is found in livestock south of the border.

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0:14:59

Plantain

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2025/12/06

Could a little grass-herb, dismissed in the past as a weed, play a key role in solving Ireland’s livestock/water quality issue? With Thomas Moloney, DLF Seeds; Thomas Duffy, dairy farmer.

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0:47:06

Countrywide 06/12/2025

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2025/12/06

Countrywide 06/12/2025

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0:07:01

Dry Stone Walls

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2025/12/06

PJ Davon, the lead Stonemason in Connemara National Park, tells Treasa Breathnach how to building a stone wall is part engineering exercise and part art form.

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0:08:32

Connemara Pony Heritage Centre

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2025/12/06

A visit to the newly opened tourist facility which will also play a role in preserving the genetic heritage of our native pony. With Cathy Snow and Martin Coyne.

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0:09:00

Gas men in Meath

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2025/11/29

A new anaerobic digester in Meath, one of the first of many, raises questions about where will all the grass to feed them come from? Minister Darragh O’Brien promises to publish the long awaited Land Use Review which will answer that question.

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0:07:51

Rivers of No Return

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2025/11/29

Walking the banks of the River Nore, artist Bernadette Kiely tells Della Kilroy how she thinks rivers simultaneously shape the landscape and our sense of ourselves.

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0:48:37

Countrywide Full Episode 29/11/2025

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2025/11/29

Countrywide Full Episode 29/11/2025

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0:09:24

Houses of Guinness

CountryWide ·

2025/11/29

Just how historically accurate is the Netflix series about the brewing dynasty. In the grounds of Ashford Castle, one of the family’s many houses, historian Adrian Tinniswood fact checks the hit show.

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0:07:55

Seen / Unseen

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2025/11/29

How do you relate to the landscape and what is going on in the countryside if you are blind or partially sighted. Suzanne Campbell reports from Gavin Cromwell’s racing yard using touch, smell and sound.

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0:03:48

Devil in the dancehall

CountryWide ·

2025/11/29

Keith Brennan goes to one hell of a hooley in Tooreen dancehall in Mayo

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0:08:37

Nitrates Derogation

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2025/11/29

Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon shares new detail on what promises he had to make on improving water quality in order to secure the EU Commission’s support for a renewal of Ireland’s derogation from the Nitrates Directive.

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0:29:27

Nitrates derogation

CountryWide ·

2025/11/22

Back in the early nineties all across the EU a rule was introduced to protect rivers and streams from agricultural run off. At the last count 7,000 out of 137,000 farms in Ireland had received a derogation from this directive. A decision on this derogation is on the agenda at the next meeting of the EU’s Nitrates Committee on December 9.

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0:08:06

Seashore solutions to plastic pollution in Cork

CountryWide ·

2025/11/22

Two pupils in Loreto secondary school Fermoy look like they are on the brink of developing a biodegradable plastic packaging made from seaweed washed up on the shore.

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0:08:18

Michael Miley's flooded farm

CountryWide ·

2025/11/22

Countrywide visited a farm in County Kildare that was flooded by recent heavy rain.

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0:48:37

Countrywide Full Episode 22/11/2025

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2025/11/22

Countrywide Full Episode 22/11/2025

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0:47:20

Countrywide Full Episode 15/11/2025

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2025/11/15

Countrywide Full Episode 15/11/2025

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0:06:55

Safety at sea

CountryWide ·

2025/11/15

The Marine Casualty Investigation Board is the body that investigates accidents and incidents at sea. It says that fatalities and injuries remain too high, especially on smaller boats under 15 metres in length.

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0:13:18

Tralee Oyster Fishery

CountryWide ·

2025/11/15

The Tralee Oyster Fishery was founded in 1979, after the near collapse of the native oyster stock. The local fishers came together to restore the population and today, they’re a cooperative of 200 fishers who both profit from and protect the fish in the bay.

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0:06:39

Marine protected areas

CountryWide ·

2025/11/15

Irish scientist Mark John Costello, based at Nord University in Norway, looked at the evidence of economic benefits on 50 existing marine protected areas in 31 countries. Can protecting parts of our oceans actually increase profits for the fishing industry?

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