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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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Countrywide Full Episode 14.11.2026
Countrywide Full Episode 14.11.2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Washington Street
Della Kilroy talked to restauranteurs about why so many of them congregated around Washington Street, including Praveen Madire from Andhra Bhavan restaurant.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Future of Butchery
The rise of unhealthy food environment has been mirrored by slide in the number of trained food professionals. One of the most critical now is butchers. Suzanne Campbell visits butcher Eoin O'Mahony in the …
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The rise of unhealthy food environment has been mirrored by slide in the number of trained food professionals. One of the most critical now is butchers. Suzanne Campbell visits butcher Eoin O'Mahony in the English market to get a sense of how butchery is changing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Goldie
Cork community garden play a large role in fuelling Cork's buzzy restaurant scene. Chef Aishling Moore from Goldie has a well earned reputation for inventive and sustainable at the same time.See …
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Cork community garden play a large role in fuelling Cork's buzzy restaurant scene. Chef Aishling Moore from Goldie has a well earned reputation for inventive and sustainable at the same time.
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Glen Resource Center
In North Cork, Barry Hickey runs a community garden in the Glen Resource Center has one scheme tackling food deserts. He has started selling the produce of that garden, and donate packaged goods, in a community …
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In North Cork, Barry Hickey runs a community garden in the Glen Resource Center has one scheme tackling food deserts. He has started selling the produce of that garden, and donate packaged goods, in a community blighted by food poverty.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Derry Desmond
In Togher, south of Cork City, lies an impressive community garden in a hares corner of the park. Philip has a conversation with Derry Desmond, a man who was getting much more out of that garden than jut the …
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In Togher, south of Cork City, lies an impressive community garden in a hares corner of the park. Philip has a conversation with Derry Desmond, a man who was getting much more out of that garden than jut the food that was growing in it.
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Cork Healthy Cities
Cork officials in Council and other agencies o government have seen how community gardens and other schemes were placing society's hands on the scales of the local food system and tipping away from big food and …
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Cork officials in Council and other agencies o government have seen how community gardens and other schemes were placing society's hands on the scales of the local food system and tipping away from big food and junk food. Marion O'Reilly from HSE Slaintecare asked the community - are there other thing that you think we could do to make things better? The community's answer was - there's lots.
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Our Farm at Bushy Park
In Watergrasshill, just a few miles outside the city, Bushy Park Farm has converted from a small dairy operation to a community garden. John Murphy borrowed the idea from a Dutch cooperative scheme that is …
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In Watergrasshill, just a few miles outside the city, Bushy Park Farm has converted from a small dairy operation to a community garden. John Murphy borrowed the idea from a Dutch cooperative scheme that is feeding thousands, and he too has big ambitions.
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Countrywide Full Episode 07.11.26
Countrywide Full Episode 07.11.26See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CAP Cuts
Part Time Mayo Sheep farmer Tony O'Donnell would be typical of many in the west of the country. His farm business is almost wholly dependent on subsidy, but in turn he is delivering environmental improvement …
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Part Time Mayo Sheep farmer Tony O'Donnell would be typical of many in the west of the country. His farm business is almost wholly dependent on subsidy, but in turn he is delivering environmental improvement. He tell us what the impact to the agri-environment scheme payments he receives would be.
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How Important are Pillar II Payments?
In the outgoing CAP Pillar I payments were basic farm subsidies. Pillar II were for rural development and environmental improvement. The next CAP will roll the two up together and apply a cut as high as 24% …
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In the outgoing CAP Pillar I payments were basic farm subsidies. Pillar II were for rural development and environmental improvement. The next CAP will roll the two up together and apply a cut as high as 24%. Many fear the Pillar II will lose out. Dr Emma Dillon from the Teagasc National Farm Survey tells us about which farms depend on Pillar II payments most.
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Defending the Family Farm
Seamus Boland is the President of the European Economic and Social Council, and a part time beef farmer. He makes the argument for maintaining the Pillar II payments as they are. See omnystudio.com/listener for …
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Seamus Boland is the President of the European Economic and Social Council, and a part time beef farmer. He makes the argument for maintaining the Pillar II payments as they are.
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Bigger and Fewer Farms
Land Agent Mike Brady has a great view of what way money is actually spent in the rural economy and how subsidy payment changes impact. He sees an irresistible push in the direction of farms consolidating and …
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Land Agent Mike Brady has a great view of what way money is actually spent in the rural economy and how subsidy payment changes impact. He sees an irresistible push in the direction of farms consolidating and scaling up that will be accelerated by the new CAP.
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Minister Martin Heydon
However much smaller the eventual CAP budget ends up being, who gets what proportion of it is entirely in the gift of the Minister for Agriculture. We ask Martin Heydon what guarantees he can give farmers, and …
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However much smaller the eventual CAP budget ends up being, who gets what proportion of it is entirely in the gift of the Minister for Agriculture. We ask Martin Heydon what guarantees he can give farmers, and we speak to him about the stalled cuts in farming emissions.
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Countrywide Full Episode 31.10.26
Countrywide Full Episode 31.10.26See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wondering Wild
Forest School Leader Laura Kennedy on getting kids out of the classroom and living life by the Celtic Calendar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A Day in the Life...
Of Waterford City and County cemeteries manger, Paul Flynn. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wicker Coffins
If a sustainable life is possible, might it also be possible to die a sustainable death. Rachel Breslin talks to Green Coffins owner, Colin McAteer, in Fanad, Co Donegal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy …
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If a sustainable life is possible, might it also be possible to die a sustainable death. Rachel Breslin talks to Green Coffins owner, Colin McAteer, in Fanad, Co Donegal.
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Crows – Emissaries from the Other Realm
On the day when the veil between this world and the afterlife is at its thinnest crows and ravens passed freely between the realms. Roger O'Reilly, author of Birds Of Ireland: Symbolism, Myth and Folklore on …
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On the day when the veil between this world and the afterlife is at its thinnest crows and ravens passed freely between the realms. Roger O'Reilly, author of Birds Of Ireland: Symbolism, Myth and Folklore on why we continue to believe there is something sinister about corvids.
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Pumpkin Harvest
Most pumpkin farms were badly hit by the summer drought, except (eerily) Tom Dillon's farm at the foot of the hill where Samhain was invented. He enjoyed a climate beating, bumper year for his 30,000 pumpkins …
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Most pumpkin farms were badly hit by the summer drought, except (eerily) Tom Dillon's farm at the foot of the hill where Samhain was invented. He enjoyed a climate beating, bumper year for his 30,000 pumpkins.
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Countrywide Full Episode 24/10/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 24/10/2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Karina Pierce
The Agriculture faculty in UCD is 100 years old this year. Philip meets their newly appointed Dean of Faculty, Professor Karina Pierce to find out what her department is doing to meet the challenges of the next …
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The Agriculture faculty in UCD is 100 years old this year. Philip meets their newly appointed Dean of Faculty, Professor Karina Pierce to find out what her department is doing to meet the challenges of the next 100 years
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Hometree's "Defining Moment" for Nature
With EU funding for farming with nature in retreat is this the moment that private finance might fill the gap. Ronan Doherty has transferred his fundraising skills from the renewable energy sector to nature …
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With EU funding for farming with nature in retreat is this the moment that private finance might fill the gap. Ronan Doherty has transferred his fundraising skills from the renewable energy sector to nature conservation with the charity Hometree. He believes we are the cusp of a breakthrough in private sector funding for high nature value farming.
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LIFE Projects Under Threat
There are 52 EU funded LIFE projects currently running in Ireland with ambitious climate and environment goals. But the funding for these could be wrapped up over the course of the next two years as Europe …
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There are 52 EU funded LIFE projects currently running in Ireland with ambitious climate and environment goals. But the funding for these could be wrapped up over the course of the next two years as Europe shifts its political priorities. Mayo farmer and tourist guide, Colum Ginnelly, sees what good they have done and what their loss will mean.
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Poll na bPeist Rescue
The wormhole on Inis Mor is ever more popular with tourists thanks to viral cliff diving social media posts. But few are aware how dangerous it is to even walk around it. Lorna Siggins talked to everyone …
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The wormhole on Inis Mor is ever more popular with tourists thanks to viral cliff diving social media posts. But few are aware how dangerous it is to even walk around it. Lorna Siggins talked to everyone involved in a recent rescue that very nearly went badly wrong.
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Countrywide Full Episode 17/10/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 17/10/2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Field Names
As our landscape changes, due to development, climate and new uses of land, the names of fields are being lost. Treasa Bhreathnach reports from Rahara, Co Roscommon on a project to record field names before …
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As our landscape changes, due to development, climate and new uses of land, the names of fields are being lost. Treasa Bhreathnach reports from Rahara, Co Roscommon on a project to record field names before they are lost forever.
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Agriculture Emissions
Ireland’s record on climate action is on course to be the worst in Europe. Why have efforts to cut farming’s greenhouse gasses come to a standstill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jane Clarke
Poet Jane Clarke’s work is a firm favourite among farmers. Her new collection asks awkward questions of all of us about what we are allowing to happen to the natural world. See omnystudio.com/listener for …
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Poet Jane Clarke’s work is a firm favourite among farmers. Her new collection asks awkward questions of all of us about what we are allowing to happen to the natural world.
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Rutting Season
On Hawthorn Hill Farm in Roscommon Keith Brennan contemplates the unearthly call of the amorous fallow deer See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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