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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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0:12:03

Newspaper review

CountryWide ·

2024/08/10

Aisling O'Brien, senior news journalist with Agriland and Margaret Donnelly, editor of the farming independent, join Hannah in the studio for a look at the main farming stories in the papers this week.

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0:09:40

Fran's Beachwear Adventure

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2024/08/03

Ronan Kelly visits Fran and Fergal in their shop Lili Mae's ending in Daingean Ui Chuis.

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0:05:04

Eoghan Doyle and the Banjo

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2024/08/03

Eoghan, a farmer from New Ross, delights us with some of his Banjo playing beore he heads to the fleadh

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0:18:42

From Grainstore to Home

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2024/08/03

Hannah visits Johnny Gleeson and Gillian Richardson in Carlow as they attempt to renovate a grainstore from 1880's into their very first home. We get feedback from Deirdre Sword, Vacant Property Officer with Mayo County Council and Dominic Keogh StoneMason.

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0:09:56

Review of the Papers

CountryWide ·

2024/08/03

Rachel Martin, farming editor with the Irish Examiner and Pat O'Toole of the Irish Farmers Journal join Hannah to discuss some of the major farming newspaper stories.

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0:48:36

CountryWide Full Episode 03/08/2024

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2024/08/03

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0:03:31

A Hay Meadow in Roscommon

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2024/08/03

We meet Keith Brennan on some of the trial and tribulations of farming a hay meadow.

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0:11:00

Winter is Coming: How longer winters will impact farmers

CountryWide ·

2024/07/27

During the week, Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, told farmers they should prepare for a 7 month winter from now on - which will mean they’ll need to have more feed banked up and more slurry storage because animals will be housed for longer. Farmers are responding.

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0:08:12

Restoring Curlew population

CountryWide ·

2024/07/27

Next week curlew chicks hand-reared by scientists will be released into the wild as part of a project to save this species from extinction. With just 100 breeding pairs left, their future here isn’t looking good. But a new publicly funded €25 million project, hopes to secure a better future for curlew and other breeding waders

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0:03:31

An Essay by John Connell

CountryWide ·

2024/07/27

John Connell recounts a road trip that he and his wife Viv took recently, a journey that in one way began in Longford and ended in Dublin, but in another way began in Vietnam in the twentieth century and ended in Ireland in the twenty first

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0:07:52

Omney Races are back!

CountryWide ·

2024/07/27

Paused in 1963, revived in 2001, the Omey Races were again suspended again in 2020. But this year, they are back on August 4th, thanks in no small part to the determination of the main organiser, Fechin Mulkerrin. Connemara breeder Joe McNamara and his daughter Emer are looking forward to the races.

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0:47:11

Countrywide Full Episode 27/07/24

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2024/07/27

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0:13:33

A walk in the countryside

CountryWide ·

2024/07/27

We have a wide range of publicly-funded schemes that have opened up walking trails across the country, and it seems there’s an insatiable appetite amongst the public for them. But how do we make sure our presence doesn’t ruin the land and nature, or the farming life in the fields?

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0:04:38

Barn Owls Conservation

CountryWide ·

2024/07/20

Three years ago Mayo Beef farmer, Barry O'Shea put up a barn owl box and now after waiting all this time, he has a breeding pair. We are joined by him and John Lusby, Raptor Conservation Officer.

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0:06:56

Dung Beetles: The Eco Systems Engineers.

CountryWide ·

2024/07/20

With their feathered antennae and shiny black armour, dung beetles move through pasture, recycling dung, building soils, cleansing parasites and providing prey for birds, bats, foxes and badgers. There are more than 40 species in Ireland. And their value as "eco systems engineers" is now being explored by farmers

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0:17:22

How Can Farmers Get Involved In Food Procurement

CountryWide ·

2024/07/20

There is hundreds of millions of euro of public money spent every year by the government on food for nursing homes, prisons, hospitals and educational facilities, including the new school meals scheme. Across the EU, this market is worth an estimated 82 billion. So what’s the potential for Irish farmers to get involved?

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0:48:47

Countrywide Full Episode 20/07/24

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2024/07/20

Full Episode

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0:15:12

Minister Charlie McConalogue on SIM Suspension

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2024/07/20

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue announced a proposal to suspend the Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) for this year. The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has demanded that tillage farmers must receive a payment for baling straw this year.

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0:07:43

A farm walk in Laois

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2024/07/06

We go on a summer walk through fields in County Laois.

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0:46:45

Countrywide Full 06/07/24

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2024/07/06

Countrywide Full 06/07/24

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