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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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0:07:56

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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0:07:58

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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0:46:31

Countrywide Full Episode 27/09/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/09/27

Countrywide Full Episode 27/09/2025

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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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0:07:49

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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0:09:35

Nature and Wildlife Farm Plan

CountryWide ·

2025/09/20

There is a scheme generating a lot of inquiries, the National Parks and Wildlife Service’s Farm Plan scheme. Tailored plans and financial support to make the switch to High Nature Value Farming. Philips visits one of these farms.

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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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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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0:09:06

Country vets crisis

CountryWide ·

2025/09/20

There is a real concern that the local vet in rural Ireland, on call all hours of the day or night, to tend to farm animals on hillsides or in farmyards, may be a thing of the past. This week at the Ploughing, the Atlantic Technological University and the South East Technological University were showcasing their new courses.

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0:03:45

An essay by Maura McElhone

CountryWide ·

2025/09/13

Maura, from Co Derry, married a farmer from Leinster and now lives on the farm in Kildare. This morning she tells us about the changing seasons of her life as her eldest child begins school.

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0:21:39

The cost of nature restoration

CountryWide ·

2025/09/13

Back in the 90s, the introduction of Special Areas of Conservation created mistrust among some farmers, and now there is fear that history is about to repeat itself with the Nature Restoration Law. We take a closer look at those concerns with Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, chair of the independent advisory committee on the Nature Restoration Plan.

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0:08:14

Harmony in Connemara

CountryWide ·

2025/09/13

Music Network has been bringing live music performances to venues in towns and villages across the country for decades, fostering interesting collaborations. Such as this collaboration between traditional pianist Ryan Molloy and sean nos singers Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta. (For copyright reasons full musical tracks are not available here)

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0:44:44

Countrywide Full Episode 13/09/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/09/13

Countrywide Full Episode 13/09/2025. (For copyright reasons the full musical tracks are not available in the podcast)

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0:10:18

First ever female young farmer of the year in Cork

CountryWide ·

2025/09/13

For the first time in the 26 year history of the Macra Na Feirme Young Farmer of the Year competition, the overall winner is a woman, Aileen Sheehan.

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0:05:07

Dr Dara Stanley on pesticide use

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

Dr Dara Stanley, Associate Professor in Applied Entomology in the School of Agriculture and Food Science, and Earth Institute, at UCD.

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0:48:05

Countrywide Full Episode 06/09/2025

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

Countrywide Full Episode 06/09/2025.

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0:07:58

A farmer on TikTok

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

Fin Walsh is a dairy farmer from Patrickswell, Co Limerick who has amassed over 150,000 TikTok followers, with posts about daily life on the farm.

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0:13:52

Supporting women entrepreneurs with the ACORNS programme

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

ACORNS (Accelerating the Creation Of Rural Nascent Start-ups) is a free initiative for early-stage female entrepreneurs based in rural Ireland. Central to its popularity is the idea that early-stage entrepreneurs learn best from their peers.

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0:10:44

Turtles in Irish waters

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

The temperatures of waters off the west coast of Ireland have been heating up, resulting in a lot of changes to marine life. Six months ago, we heard from ten year-old Jonathan Padden from North Mayo, who found a tiny loggerhead turtle on An Fál Mór beach in Blacksod Bay.

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0:09:19

Reducing the amount of pesticides going in to lakes...

CountryWide ·

2025/09/06

Uisce Éireann is running a pilot project to reduce the amount of pesticides going in to lakes and rivers. They think it will be easier in the long run for them to stop pesticides getting in to our drinking water than it is for them to have to take them out.

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