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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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Countrywide Full Episode 07/12/2024

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2024/12/07

Countrywide Full Episode 07/12/2024

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0:09:00

Turkeys for Christmas

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2024/12/07

Ella McSweeney reports from David McEvoy's turkey farm in County Louth. This year, he has decided to donate part of the proceeds from the sales of his turkeys to the local women's refuge in Drogheda.

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0:18:28

Organic farming

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2024/11/23

We visit Joe Nolan in Carlow where he runs both organic sheep and tillage operations. In this virtuous circle, the sheep fertilise the cereals and the cereals feed the sheep. We also hear from Padraig Brennan, Chair of the National Organic Strategy Forum.

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0:45:16

Countrywide Full Episode 23/11/2024

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2024/11/23

Countrywide Full Episode 23/11/2024

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0:19:02

Nellie Oleson actress tracks down Irish ancestors

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2024/11/23

Alison Arngrim, who played mean girl Nellie Oleson in The Little House on the Prairie, tracks down her Irish ancestors in county Kilkenny.

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0:06:50

Storm Bert

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2024/11/23

We hear from farmers around the country as Storm Bert makes its way through the West and South West.

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0:43:06

Countrywide Full Episode 16/11/2024

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2024/11/16

Countrywide Full Episode 16/11/2024

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0:07:14

Restoring Éire 63 watch station

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2024/11/16

There were 83 watch stations on cliff and mountain tops around the country, each with its own numbered Éire sign, made with white stones and visible from the sky. Lorna Siggins hiked up to Éire 63 in County Mayo with a community group who have restored the coast watch station.

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0:09:03

A lifetime of training yields a winner in Fairyhouse

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2024/11/16

Brenda Donohue meets 70 year-old horse trainer Eleanor Broderick in Fermoy.

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0:09:18

Proposed sale of Kerry Dairy Ireland

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2024/11/16

Kerry Group is asking its shareholders if it can sell off most of its dairy business, a big change with a potentially big impact on farming. With Lorcan Roche Kelly, agri-business editor with the Irish Farmers Journal.

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0:15:43

Farming For Nature

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2024/11/16

Mayo farmer Sinéad Moran, one of the earlier ambassadors of the Farming For Nature scheme, speaks about what she has learned and how the scheme helped her business. And we look at the new handbook by farmers for farmers: "A Practical Guide To Protecting And Restoring Nature On Your Farm"

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0:01:01

The Caddisfly: a poem by Jane Clarke

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2024/11/16

Poet Jane Clarke grew up on a farm in County Roscommon, and farming and nature are woven through her work.

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0:16:06

Invasion of the Jelly Fish

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2024/11/09

We got news on Countrywide this week of a very large fish kill in a Salmon Farm in Donegal – that was caused by an inundation of Jellyfish. Then separately we got more jellyfish related news at completely the other end of the country from Donegal. Philip Boucher Hayes went to investigate

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0:15:29

The Town Scientist

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2024/11/09

A Town Scientist is a pilot programme developed and delivered by Dundalk native Dr Niamh Shaw, scientist, engineer, communicator, and performer. It aims to work with people from local communities to make science more accessible and to break down barriers that often keep people from engaging with scientific topics.

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0:11:36

Irelands Tidiest Village - Ballinahown

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2024/11/09

Well, we have all heard of the phrase, it takes a village, that is certainly the case in Ballinahown, Co Westmeath, which has been named as Ireland’s Tidiest Village at this year’s SuperValu TidyTowns competition.

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0:45:10

Countrywide Full Episode 02/11/2024

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2024/11/02

Countrywide Full Episode 02/11/2024

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0:07:34

An Irish American in Connemara

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2024/11/02

Tami Joy is an Irish American farmer transplanted from Washington State to Co Galway. She now runs an agri tourism enterprise, where you can tour their farm, dine on their produce, stay the night and take part in workshops.

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0:02:06

The hopes and ambitions of the latest US biodiversity...

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2024/11/02

Journalist Orla Dwyer updates us on the latest UN global biodiversity summit in Colombia.

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0:06:44

Grazing on a Galway beach

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2024/11/02

At the end of last winter, as a pilot project, Galway city's Biodiversity Officer asked Lackagh farmer Keith Fahy if he would allow five of this Dexter cattle to graze the meadows beside Ballyloughane Beach. Would conservation grazing improve plant life?

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0:10:56

Extinction Tour

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2024/11/02

Naturalist and author Declan Murphy took us on a tour to see plants and animals that are under threat.

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