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Mooney Goes Wild

Derek Mooney and guests explore the natural world in all its forms. Listen live every Monday at 10pm on RTÉ Radio 1.

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0:08:21

Mute Swans are not so mute after all

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/10/07

With a name like Mute Swan, you would be forgiven for thinking that Ireland’s heaviest bird species was completely silent. Far from it, however: although not as vocal as our other two swan species, Mute Swans nonetheless utter a wide range of hisses, grunts and whistles. Richard Collins has been down to Dublin's Fairview Park to find some.

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0:12:45

Bee beds on Valentia Island

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/23

Valentia Bee Beds is a new business venture by beekeepers Paul O’Neill and Anton Tovarnitskyi which gives customers the opportunity to lie on special beds containing genuine bee hives. Michele Browne travels to Valentia and finds out about the beneficial health effects of the bee beds.

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0:54:29

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/23

Derek is joined by Richard Collins & Éanna Ní Lamhna. We discover the Angle Shades moth, a highly camouflaged, almost army fatigue-patterned moth.

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0:34:36

Where have all the butterflies gone?

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/23

We are joined by butterfly expert Jesmond Harding, author of The Irish Butterfly Book: A Complete Guide to the Butterflies of Ireland.

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0:02:05

The Angle Shades moth

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/23

The Angle Shades moth is a highly camouflaged, almost army fatigue-patterned moth. It is a common and widespread species across Ireland that can be seen most readily during the months of autumn.

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0:18:23

Snail slime skincare with a health warning.

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/16

Many people don’t like snails, possibly because of the way they move or the slime they leave behind...but not Co. Monaghan-based farmer Kieran Corley, who rears them. Our roving reporter, Terry Flanagan, recently paid a visit to Drumlin country to find out more about these amazing creatures.

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0:08:26

Introducing the European Bee-eater, one of Europe’s...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/16

Niall Hatch joins us from the town of Mandelieu-La Napoule in southern France where he finds the European Bee-eater. Niall picked up their distinctive jaunty flight calls as they flew overhead, and tonight he tells us more about them.

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0:25:08

There’s much more to moths than meets the eye!

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/16

Compared to their close cousins, the butterflies, moths have something of a PR problem. Marc Holderied, Professor of Sensory Biology at the University of Bristol, is here to refresh their image.

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0:51:58

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/16

Derek is joined by Richard Collins while Niall Hatch reports from the town of Mandelieu-La Napoule in southern France seeking out the European Bee-eater; Marc Holderied, Professor of Sensory Biology at the University of Bristol, tells us about moths; and Terry Flanagan visits the farm of Kieran Morley's where he rears snails.

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0:11:49

'Near Threatened' orchid discovered in Oranmore for...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/09

A joint environmental initiative by Galway County Council and Conservation Volunteers Galway has led to the remarkable discovery of Autumn Lady's Tresses orchids, which haven't been seen in the area for 80 years. Éanna speaks to Rosina Joyce, Biodiversity Officer for Galway County Council, about the rediscovery.

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0:26:34

Terry’s Nature News

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/09

Each week, Terry Flanagan brings us specially selected stories about the natural world. Tonight's topics: Good news for Irish Corncrakes; Where have all our butterflies gone?; and Studying the effects of cocaine on sharks!

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0:14:58

Dogs helping in the fight against poaching in Africa

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/09

Dog trainer Rory Henberry has recently set up a charity called the K9 Wildlife Project, with the intention of training dogs to send to Africa to assist conservation rangers in combatting poachers. Terry travelled to Mallow, Co. Cork to chat with Rory and local vet Carina Mederle.

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0:54:00

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/09

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins, Terry Flanagan & Niall Hatch to discuss a rare orchid that has been rediscovered in Galway, Wings magazine, and Terry's Nature News.

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0:17:28

Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/02

Recently, Niall received a message from a friend who found a dead kestrel in their garden. Poison, intended for rodents, may well have been the culprit. Éanna is a spokesperson for the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use in Ireland, so who better to fill us in on the rules and regulations around the use of rat poison.

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0:23:48

Irish photographer’s image featured on a US postage...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/02

Sea turtles are amongst the most threatened creatures on the planet. A new series of postage stamps issued by the United States Postal Service aims to raise awareness of this issue and one of the photos chosen for the campaign was taken by Irish marine biologist Rowan Byrne.

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0:11:52

New species of harvestman discovered for Ireland

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/02

Like spiders and scorpions, harvestmen are members of the group of invertebrates known as arachnids. Brian Murray is one of the founders of the microWild project, a native wildflower meadow and invertebrate reserve in Co. Wicklow, and he has managed to discover a species of harvestmen that had never before been recorded in Ireland.

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0:54:16

Mooney Goes Wild

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/09/02

Derek is joined by Éanna Ní Lamhna, Richard Collins & Niall Hatch to discuss rodenticide, harvestmen and a leatherback turtle stamp.

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0:17:39

An artificial wall in Kildare gives the Sand Martins...

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/08/26

Dermot Doran, a farmer based in north Co. Kildare, tells our roving reporter Terry Flanagan that around 1,000 young birds have fledged from his wall to date.

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0:03:06

The origins of 'Shrinking Violets'

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/08/26

Nobody could possibly describe our Éanna Ní Lamhna as being a “shrinking violet”, but nonetheless she delves into the origins of this odd phrase for us in tonight’s programme.

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0:31:45

Sing Like Fish with Amorina Kingdon

Mooney Goes Wild ·

2024/08/26

Award-winning science journalist Amorina Kingdon speaks to Éanna Ní Lamhna about the hitherto hidden sounds of life beneath the ocean waves and her new book Sing Like Fish.

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