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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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0:07:12

Turtle on a beach

CountryWide ·

2025/03/29

Ten year old Jonathan Padden was walking on Blacksod Beach in Mayo when he spotted a Turtle in need of care. Jonathan was quick to the rescue!

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0:06:11

Training for Wildfires

CountryWide ·

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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0:08:00

Museum of Time

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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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0:46:12

Countrywide Full Episode 22/03/2025

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2025/03/22

Countrywide Full Episode 22/03/2025

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0:10:08

Lambing ewes with an organic farmer

CountryWide ·

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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0:05:28

Artificial Insemination

CountryWide ·

2025/03/22

Beef and dairy farmers react to the news that four of the companies that sell them frozen semen straws intend to assert their intellectual property rights over the calves born from these straws.

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0:07:30

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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0:06:53

The risk of Lyme's disease

CountryWide ·

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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0:12:36

Ráth Chairn Gaeltacht i gContae na Mi

CountryWide ·

2025/03/22

Celebrating 90 years since families moved to Contae na Mi from the Gaeltacht. (for copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this interview cannot be made available in the podcast)

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0:10:10

Record prices for beef

CountryWide ·

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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0:25:35

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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0:45:29

Countrywide Full Episode 15/03/2025

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2025/03/15

Countrywide Full Episode 15/03/2025.

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0:12:55

Professor Alan Matthews

CountryWide ·

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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0:48:35

Countrywide Full Episode 08/03/2025

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2025/03/08

Countrywide Full Episode 08/03/2025.

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0:09:15

Dr Catherine Farrell

CountryWide ·

2025/03/08

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

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0:08:26

Voluntary rewetting scheme

CountryWide ·

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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0:07:18

Limitless by Nuala Moore

CountryWide ·

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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0:08:04

GAA Film Awards in North Cork

CountryWide ·

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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0:10:44

Heritage Council Grant

CountryWide ·

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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