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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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0:04:17

Comfort can sometimes be shaped like a hedgehog

CountryWide ·

2025/10/18

Maria Moynihan reflects on how she found comfort in nature, while grieving the loss of her firstborn.

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0:08:59

Irish Farm Book in colour

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2025/10/18

Celebrating publication of the Irish Farm Book in colour, we visit Kinvara to see a unique collection of photos from the 1950s.

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0:03:23

Fisherman in Iceland on the technology he uses to...

CountryWide ·

2025/10/11

Haraldur Eiriksson runs a salmon fishing business 45km outside Reykjavik. The technology he uses gives him live readings of what is going on in the river.

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0:46:05

Blackwater river fish kill

CountryWide ·

2025/10/11

Barry Fox, Deputy CEO of Inland Fisheries; Tom Ryan, a Director of the EPA with responsibility for environmental enforcement; Rick Officer CEO of the Marine Institute; Timmy Dooley, Minister of State with responsibility for fisheries and the marine.

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0:09:50

Impact of the Blackwater fish kill on people living...

CountryWide ·

2025/10/11

During the week, Countrywide went to the lower reaches of the river catchment and talked to a few people who describe the Blackwater as part of their lives.

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0:01:03

Walls of Arainn

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2025/10/04

Poet Jane Clarke reading Walls of Arainn, one of her poems from a new book called The Hare’s Corner.

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0:07:20

Remnants of Our Past

CountryWide ·

2025/10/04

Walking during lockdown Deirdre O’Neill noticed how visible the fingerprints of history are on our landscape. This inspired her to chronicle as many of these ancient artefacts in fields around the country as she could find. The result is Remnants of Our Past, published by Gill Books.

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0:07:40

The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature

CountryWide ·

2025/10/04

The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature by poet Jane Clarke and journalist Catherine Cleary, is a celebration of the quiet, hopeful revolution taking place across Ireland, where people are making space for nature to thrive once again.

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0:44:05

Countrywide full episode: A special programme on new...

CountryWide ·

2025/10/04

A special programme on new books about farms, rural life and nature.

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0:01:18

Come October

CountryWide ·

2025/10/04

On the Burren in County Clare, farmers are preparing to move their livestock up onto the limestone pavement winterage in the hills. This traditional way of managing cows over winter is recorded in Jane Clarke’s poem, Come October.

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0:07:40

The Living and the Dead

CountryWide ·

2025/10/04

Conor W O’Brien’s book The Living and The Dead, tales of Loss and Rebirth from Irish Nature is published by Merrion Press.

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0:09:26

Seventy Years in the Wild West

CountryWide ·

2025/10/04

Seventy Years in the Wild West is the story of Dhulough Farm, published by Mayo Books. It is a chronicle of the human disaster behind creating the biggest farm in Irish history.

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0:07:08

The Shepherd’s Life and English Pastoral

CountryWide ·

2025/10/04

James Rebanks is a farmer turned author in England’s Lake District. In his farming memoirs The Shepherd’s Life and English Pastoral, he tells his story of rightsizing an unprofitable, environmentally unsustainable farm.

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0:07:49

Féile na bPuiteachaí

CountryWide ·

2025/09/27

Féile na bPuiteachaí is a celebration of the blackberry on Inis Meán ar nOileann Arainn.

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0:07:58

Harvesting rye

CountryWide ·

2025/09/27

Rye is in the same family as wheat and historically was used in distilling and thatching. Nowadays most farmers are planting rye for animal feed. With the rise in craft bakeries, rye is also going into baked goods. We visit a farmer and food seller benefitting from this very old but increasingly trendy grain.

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0:07:56

Heritage apples from orchards in Roscommon, Clare and...

CountryWide ·

2025/09/27

Hundreds of farms across the country have taken advantage of support from the ACRES scheme to plant native apple trees on their farms, including varieties like Rose Hogan, the Beauty of Ballintaylor or the Dick Davies.

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0:21:34

How to restore river health

CountryWide ·

2025/09/27

The report on the River Blackwater fish kill published this week was inconclusive, with no enough evidence to say what was to blame for the largest fish kill in Irish history. We discuss the impact of the flow of rivers and river pollution, with Professors Fiona Regan and Mary Bourke.

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0:46:31

Countrywide Full Episode 27/09/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/09/27

Countrywide Full Episode 27/09/2025

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0:07:52

Listen up Irish

CountryWide ·

2025/09/20

A brand new language school which creates an on line community of Irish language learners who audio-read a book together. Lorna Siggins took a look into the new way of learning Irish and some of its converts.

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0:20:12

Ploughing Championship Townhall

CountryWide ·

2025/09/20

Minister Martin Heydon addresses the concerns of Farmers expressed during the RTÉ Townhall during ploughing

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