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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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0:05:44

Enjoying a long table dinner at Ballyholey Farm

CountryWide ·

2025/07/26

John Graham is a vegetable farmer near Raphoe and over the last few years he’s run an honesty box, a farm shop and sold his vegetables in Letterkenny’s farmers market. He also hosts long-table dinners on his farm.

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0:08:56

EU farm subsidies proposals

CountryWide ·

2025/07/26

Bartosz Brzezinski, Brussels reporter with the global news organisation Politico, brings us up to date with the EU farm subsidies proposals.

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0:16:29

CAP negotiations panel discussion

CountryWide ·

2025/07/26

Denis Drennan, President of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association; Karen Mannion, CEO of Forum Connemara; Ruth Hegarty, Director of Food Policy Ireland and a board member of Talamh Beo.

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0:08:37

Celebrating the Celtic festival of Lúnasa with...

CountryWide ·

2025/07/26

Poet, playwright, and broadcaster, Vincent Woods grew up on a small farm in County Leitrim in the 1960s and caught a glimpse of the summer rituals.

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0:50:01

Countrywide Full Programme 26/07/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/07/26

Countrywide Full Programme 26/07/2025

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0:05:26

The lucrative business of illegal peat removal

CountryWide ·

2025/07/19

Ella speaks to Tom Ryan, EPA Director of Enforcement

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0:46:03

Countrywide Bog Special

CountryWide ·

2025/07/19

Ella McSweeney looks at how our relationship with the bog has changed over the past few years, from one of extraction and peat production, to one of creation and restoration.

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0:02:49

Tóchar Community Voices

CountryWide ·

2025/07/19

Tóchar Community Voices is a storytelling initiative, part of Tóchar Midlands Wetland Restoration Project. The three-year project is dedicated to wetland restoration, research, and community engagement across Ireland’s midlands.

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0:01:32

Poet Jane Clarke reads Barnacullian Bog

CountryWide ·

2025/07/19

Poet Jane Clarke reads Barnacullian Bog

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0:06:19

How retrofiting houses can help end turf harvesting

CountryWide ·

2025/07/19

Treasa Bhreathnach visits Ballycroy in Co Mayo to hear about a house retrofitting scheme to end turf harvesting on designated nature sites.

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0:18:06

Saving Abbeyleix Bog

CountryWide ·

2025/07/19

25 years ago, 37 locals protested to save Abbeyleix Bog, now a local centre for locals, tourists and nature.

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0:10:54

A visit to Carbery Bog

CountryWide ·

2025/07/19

Ella McSweeney visits Carbery Bog, which the community has owned and managed for 120 years.

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0:09:35

How are animals dealing with the hot weather?

CountryWide ·

2025/07/12

Dairy farmer and vet Hazel Mullins and farmer Martin Conroy from Woodside Farm in Cork tell us how to keep animals cool and calm.

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0:08:34

A pedicure in Inishmore

CountryWide ·

2025/07/12

Treasa Bhreathnach went along with Cecil Fitzgerald and his apprentice Noel to visit the yard of Thomas Faherty in Aran Islands where a couple of horses were waiting for their pedicure.

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0:23:12

Dairy farmers and EU's new environmental standards

CountryWide ·

2025/07/12

Uncertainty and confusion surrounds Dairy farmers on the possibility of adhering to EU's new environmental standards that aim to protect nature sites, including rivers, bogs, sanddunes and estuaries as part of appropriate assessments.

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0:05:17

Adjusting farming to the heat

CountryWide ·

2025/07/12

A look at how new rare breed pigs Marjorie, Hattie and Ishpini at Hannah Quinn-Mulligan's farm in Limerick are adjusting to the heat.

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0:06:12

A river runs free

CountryWide ·

2025/07/05

There was real excitement during the week on the River Deveron - when a weir that had stood for over 150 years was fully removed, reconnecting the river and giving salmon, trout, eels access to more than 11 kilometres of upstream habitat for the very first time in generations.

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0:24:11

What's stopping young people from farming?

CountryWide ·

2025/07/05

Only a sliver of farms are owned by young people - 7% under 35 years of age. Some of them shared their experiences, frustrations, and hopes.

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0:09:12

The Lingaun Loop Bus

CountryWide ·

2025/07/05

To get people out of their cars and into public transport, a small community right on the Kilkenny-Tipperary border have set up a free bus service for tourists and locals.

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0:06:58

Community gardening

CountryWide ·

2025/07/05

In the heart of Portlaoise a forgotten patch of land, that was once a forgotten patch of land, has been completely transformed into a place of restoration and community.

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