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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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0:07:20

Esther's Eggs

CountryWide ·

2024/03/30

In the not too distant past, eggs were stored through Lent for an egg feast on Easter Sunday morning. Down on their 100 acre organic farm in Tipperary, Ollie and Esther O'Brien produce and sell their own eggs directly into shops.

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0:14:37

Weather put pressure on farmers

CountryWide ·

2024/03/30

As the combination of climate change and El Nino is making farming more and more difficult, we go to Kilkenny Mart to speak to farmers. Also joining us is Mike Magan, chairperson of the National Fodder and Food Security Committee, who met yesterday as a response to the pressures that the weather is placing on farmers.

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0:03:57

A shaggy dog tale with a waggy tail ending

CountryWide ·

2024/03/30

Smokey and Sally are two adorable dogs, one a little black terrier, the other a wheaten terrier mix. In the past week, they have put their owner through the wringer when they went missing.

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0:07:03

Demand for lamb on the rise

CountryWide ·

2024/03/30

As the demand for lamb rises, partly fueled by the end of Ramadan falling so close to Easter Sunday, sheep farmers have been enjoying a price spike.

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0:08:57

Impact on farming of this year's wet weather

CountryWide ·

2024/03/23

Some weather stations have measured the rainfall since last August as the wettest eight months since Irish meteorological records began. The water table is right below, and in many cases above the surface, which has been disruptive to farming.

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0:06:09

EU agrifood policy changes

CountryWide ·

2024/03/23

The European Commission has proposed making farms across Europe smaller than ten hectares exempt from CAP inspections and payment penalties. This could impact up to 28,000 mostly beef and sheep farmers in the west of the country.

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0:05:27

Kilmallock Mart

CountryWide ·

2024/03/23

In county Limerick, the Bank Holiday Kilmallock Mart was buzzing this week. As well as the buying and selling in the mart ring, there is a market outside and plenty of people out to meet and greet each other at the end of winter.

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0:40:14

Countrywide Full 23/03/24

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2024/03/23

Countrywide Full 23/03/24

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0:10:57

Farm shops

CountryWide ·

2024/03/23

We speak to farmers who are trying to get better prices for their products by selling directly to the public through their own farm shops.

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0:05:06

The Hare's Corner

CountryWide ·

2024/03/23

The Hare's Corner is an old farming expression for an awkward corner of a field or an area of rough ground that was hard to farm, and so left to nature. Participants in the Burrenbeo Trust's Hare's Corner project have dug ponds, planted native trees or traditional orchards, or taken advice on how to manage their land for nature.

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0:42:09

Countrywide Full 16/03/24

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2024/03/16

Countrywide Full 16/03/24

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0:42:01

A riverside journey along the Boyne

CountryWide ·

2024/03/16

The Countrywide team takes us on a riverside journey along the Boyne, navigating its catchment from river head to coast.

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0:10:37

Reels on Wheels

CountryWide ·

2024/03/09

Carmel McKenna has made it her mission to ensure that céilí dancing is for everybody. She has adapted some of the most popular céilí dances, so that people using wheelchairs or with limited mobility can join in.

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0:42:01

Countrywide Full 09/03/24

CountryWide ·

2024/03/09

Countrywide Full 09/03/24

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0:05:38

Istabraq

CountryWide ·

2024/03/09

The Cheltenham Racing Festival starts on Tuesday with horses travelling from Ireland as hopefuls. Some, like Istabraq in 2000, will come home as legends. But what happens when a legend's last race is run? We speak to Lara Hegarty, who works at JP McManus' Martinstown Stud, where Istabraq lives.

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0:08:34

TB vaccines

CountryWide ·

2024/03/09

We speak to Professor of Veterinary Immunology at UCD, Eamonn Gormley about TB vaccines.

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0:03:45

A Spring essay by John Connell

CountryWide ·

2024/03/09

The snow has melted, Spring has taken hold, and John's young son Ted has just turned one.

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0:12:05

Farm paperwork

CountryWide ·

2024/03/09

In many farms, administrative or form filling tasks end up falling to women. In Cooraclevin Co Offaly, we speak to a husband and wife farming partnership, Joe and Karen Smyth, and Karen shows us the paperwork that dominates her life.

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0:07:15

Home grown vegetables face competition

CountryWide ·

2024/03/02

We hear from a vegetable farmer in Kerry whose vegetables are being fed to cattle because of cheaper imports from Spain.

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0:06:07

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Irish on the farmyward

CountryWide ·

2024/03/02

Hannah Quinn Mulligan loves the Irish words that describe life on the farm, and the way some of those words have become woven into everyday life beyond the farm gate.

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