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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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Tangle Net Fishing

CountryWide ·

2026/02/21

Tangle Net Fishing for Crayfish is sweeping up other critically endangered species as “by-catch”. How do we save Angel Sharks from extinction while preserving fishermen incomes and coastal communities? Marine Biologist, Dr Patrick Collins, QUB. Crayfish fisherman, Eddie Moore, NIFA. Angel Shark project leader, Louise Overy, MTU.

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0:44:43

Countrywide Full Episode 21/02/2026

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2026/02/21

Countrywide Full Episode 21/02/2026

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0:00:58

Dúlamán

CountryWide ·

2026/02/21

When a song about seaweed is actually about so much more.

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0:06:53

Bord Bia Row

CountryWide ·

2026/02/21

What do farmers outside the mainstream make of the IFA / Bord Bia stand off, and how would they like to reinvent our food systems for the 21st century. Fergal Anderson, Co-Founder, Talamh Beo.

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0:07:29

Seaweed Rights

CountryWide ·

2026/02/21

Families who have traditionally harvested seaweed from the foreshore fear that a new requirement to register before collecting will favour a multinational exporter over them. Lorna Siggins reports.

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0:06:25

A live A live O

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2026/02/21

Lee Hunter has developed a way to tell the difference between live and dead oysters using sound.

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0:43:18

Countrywide Full Episode 14/02/2026

CountryWide ·

2026/02/14

Countrywide Full Episode 14/02/2026

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0:07:06

Irish dairy farmers more exposed than most

CountryWide ·

2026/02/14

Agri-economist Prof Alan Matthews on why efforts to reduce supply and increase the international price are unlikely to work.

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0:02:55

Ireland’s Brainiest Bovine

CountryWide ·

2026/02/14

Dan Hanley in Kildorrery nominates 1255 from his Holstein Friesian herd who has mastered pulling the hopper cord to feed herself and her herd mates.

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0:06:04

Powdered Milk

CountryWide ·

2026/02/14

Only 10% of Irish milk is sold in Ireland. The rest is sold mostly as powdered milk in three quarters of the countries around the world. Suzanne Campbell reports on how that ingredient is used in everything from dry roasted peanuts to shampoo.

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0:07:32

Cork Butter Museum

CountryWide ·

2026/02/14

Regan Hutchins pays a visit to the museum that explores Irish history through a dairy lens.

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0:03:37

Dairy Gothic

CountryWide ·

2026/02/14

Writer Dennis Ryan reads an excerpt from his memoir about the last day his father milked his cows.

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0:10:23

Milk Price Collapse

CountryWide ·

2026/02/14

A drop in the price of milk in the international markets threatens to cut average dairy farm incomes by €70,000 this year. Dairy Farmers Aoife Ladd, Liam Walshe and Dan Hanley. Paul Smyth from the ICMSA.

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0:45:00

Countrywide Full Episode 07/02/2026

CountryWide ·

2026/02/07

Countrywide Full Episode 07/02/2026

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0:21:04

Flood Prevention

CountryWide ·

2026/02/07

Is the way we are farming partly responsible for flooding, and what changes might decrease damage in the future? Geomorphologist Prof Mary Bourke. Sligo Farmers Eddie Davitt and Joe Leonard. Farming For Water EIP, dairy farmer, Alan Poole. We also spoke to Orla Heffernan, a homeowner in Ballina who suffered a major flooding event in 2015.

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0:07:59

The Jet Stream is stuck

CountryWide ·

2026/02/07

Leading Jet Stream expert Dr Jennifer Francis explains how the fast-moving current that used to ensure changeable weather is increasingly getting stuck.

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0:07:35

Financing nature-based flood relief

CountryWide ·

2026/02/07

Rob Gardner, Natural Asset Investment manager argues nature-based flooding solutions give you more bang for your buck than traditional concrete and steel protection.

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0:06:50

Safety around farm machinery

CountryWide ·

2026/01/31

40% of workplace fatalities happen on farms. Half of those involve machinery. Suzanne Campbell accompanies a HSA inspector doing a farm safety audit.

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0:05:55

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

CountryWide ·

2026/01/31

In the 18th century, the father of the author Maria Edgeworth from Longford was the inventor of many agri-mechanical innovations still in use today.

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0:04:17

Seamus O’Rourke: Leaning On Gates

CountryWide ·

2026/01/31

An excerpt from Seamus’s memoir Leaning On Gates about what “innovating” with tractors in the eighties.

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