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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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0:05:10

Electric Tractors for Ethiopia

CountryWide ·

2024/08/17

David Moore chats to Hannah about his company which creates Electric Tractors to use in Ethiopia

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0:08:58

The Importance of Diversification in Farming

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2024/08/17

Darragh McCullough, Ear to the Ground Presenter, and Teresa Roche join Hannah in the studio to talk about how important it is to have diversification in farming. Teresa Roche is from a farm beside Kylemore Abbey near Loughrea in Galway. She came from a dairy farming background and has now started Kylemore Cheeses.

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0:17:00

Rural Housing: Need or Desire?

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2024/08/10

Escalating costs and planning delays can be a frustrating experience for many hoping to build a home on their family farm. We visit Eoin O' Brien a younger farmer building on a a site in Limerick and Darragh Molloy. Derek Whyte a planning consultant and Breandan O'Keefe join Hannah in the studio.

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0:08:13

Dublin Horse Show and Horse Rescue

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2024/08/10

The Horse Show is on in the RDS this week, across the country competitors are putting the final touches to their preparations. Suzanne Campbell meets a family preparing with their special rescue pony Da Vinci

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0:07:56

Curlew Chicks

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2024/08/10

The story of little Curlew Chicks released back in to the wild on Mark and Clare Craven's farm in Roscommon. Lorna Siggins went to visit the farm to see the Curlews for herself.

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0:12:03

Newspaper review

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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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0:48:36

CountryWide Full Episode 03/08/2024

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2024/08/03

Full Episode

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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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0:09:56

Review of the Papers

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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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0:05:04

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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0:09:40

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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0:47:11

Countrywide Full Episode 27/07/24

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2024/07/27

Full Episode

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0:07:52

Omney Races are back!

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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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0:08:12

Restoring Curlew population

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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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0:13:33

A walk in the countryside

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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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0:03:31

An Essay by John Connell

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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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0:11:00

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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0:48:47

Countrywide Full Episode 20/07/24

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2024/07/20

Full Episode

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0:04:38

Barn Owls Conservation

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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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