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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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0:05:48

Restoring power

CountryWide ·

2025/01/11

Our regular reporter Diarmuid McIntyre lives near the Ballyhoura Mountains in Limerick. He bumped into John Hughes and Michael Nolan of Activo, working on behalf of the ESB, getting power back to some of his neighbours under very difficult conditions.

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0:03:30

A postcard from North Cork

CountryWide ·

2025/01/11

Down on her family farm near Banteer, Janet Heeran was snow-bound this week, the children were off school and her husband busy around the yard, as she recounts in her postcard from North Cork.

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0:07:53

Farming during a cold snap

CountryWide ·

2025/01/11

Hill sheep farmer Mary-Catherine Murphy lives in the hills above the highest village in Ireland, Roundwood in Co Wicklow. We find out how she fared during the cold snap.

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0:08:08

Lessons from Scotland in out-wintering animals in low...

CountryWide ·

2025/01/11

We hear advice from a couple who “out-winter” their cattle in a part of Scotland where temperatures can drop as low as -15C.

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0:46:14

Countrywide Full Show 11/01/2024

CountryWide ·

2025/01/11

Countrywide Full Show 11/01/2024

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0:11:24

Rural Entrepreneurs

CountryWide ·

2025/01/11

We hear from three entrepreneurs who wanted to work and live in rural Ireland and have developed businesses that allow them to do that. Next weekend, they will be attending Showcase, an annual trade fair held at the RDS.

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0:07:39

Meals on Wheels

CountryWide ·

2025/01/11

With so many without power or water this week, one of our most valuable services is the Meals on Wheels network under the umbrella of Irish Rural Link, delivering 15,000 meals a week. Brenda Donohue visited Sona Sasta, Meals on Wheels in Summerhill in County Meath where she joined John and Carmel Swan knocking on doors with dinners in hand.

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0:35:55

Farming: a look at the year ahead

CountryWide ·

2025/01/04

Dairy farmer Thomas Duffy; Maura Walsh CEO of IRD Duhallow; Professor Yvonne Buckley, who manages the co-centre for Climate and Biodiversity; Jack Kennedy, editor of the Irish Farmers Journal

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0:50:00

Countrywide Full Episode 04/01/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/01/04

Countrywide Full Episode 04/01/2025

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0:02:56

A humble tribute to a wonderful woman

CountryWide ·

2025/01/04

Seamus O’Rourke in Leitrim pays tribute to his mother.

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0:07:17

Award winning sustainability tricks of the trade in...

CountryWide ·

2025/01/04

Patrick O’Neill milks 120 cows on 150 acres just outside Edgeworthstown, Co Longford. Last year he won Teagasc’s Grassland Sustainability Award.

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0:46:17

Countrywide: Best of 2024

CountryWide ·

2024/12/28

Some of our favourite stories from 2024: selling up and shipping out at Carnew Mart in Co. Wicklow, learning to look at Roscommon in a whole new way, and a lifetime of training leads to a win after retirement age in Cork.

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0:38:22

Countrywide's Christmas Special

CountryWide ·

2024/12/21

On this week's Countrywide, we meet storytellers, wren enthusiasts and convivial shop keepers, all wrapped up with music from Lyric FM's Choirs for Christmas. For copyright reasons, some of the music has been shortened in this podcast version.

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0:06:01

A visit to Dublin's DSPCA

CountryWide ·

2024/12/14

Ellen Leonard reporting from the DSPCA.

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0:12:10

Donegal singer David James

CountryWide ·

2024/12/14

David James is a 26 year old musician from Donegal. He is also a world champion Irish dancer, and a presenter on Highland Radio.

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0:46:40

Countrywide Full Episode 14/12/2024

CountryWide ·

2024/12/14

Countrywide Full Episode 14/12/2024

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0:03:33

After the storm

CountryWide ·

2024/12/14

After the storm, an essay by Keith Brennan

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0:08:44

Walking through an apple orchard

CountryWide ·

2024/12/14

Down on his 60 acre farm near Cahir, Con Traas produces nearly five million apples every year. To make a living, he has to diversify - apple juices, ciders, vinegars, and now he has a new apple brandy.

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0:06:19

New Bia Innovator Campus supports Nibbed Cacao

CountryWide ·

2024/12/14

This year, a brand new Bia Innovator Campus opened in Athenry, providing support to businesses, such as Nibbed Cacao.

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0:08:55

What does the Mercosur deal mean for Ireland?

CountryWide ·

2024/12/14

This week, farmers took to the streets in Brussels to protest against the Mercosur deal, a new trade agreement finalised last weekend between the EU and a group of South American countries, including Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Professor Alan Matthews is an expert in European Agricultural Policy.

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