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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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  • Today · 8 min

    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 they are lost forever. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Today · 13 min

    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.

  • Today · 12 min

    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 privacy information.

  • Today · 5 min

    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.

  • October 10 · 40 min

    Countrywide Full Episode 10/10/26

    How the seas and ocean around Ireland shape our lives and could change our future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • October 10 · 9 min

    Silicon Valley of the Sea

    Prof John Bell flips Ireland's idea of itself on its head. The country is not a peripheral island on the edge of Europe. It is a large maritime nation that could become a bio-economic super power. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • October 10 · 7 min

    Archiving Coastal Communities

    The Creative Ireland visual arts project "Dunmore Through a Lens" has captured the Waterford fishing village's people and their memories. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • October 10 · 7 min

    Blue Wellbeing

    Surfer and Academic Dr Easkey Britton believes that both we and the ocean will benefit by adjusting our relationship with the marine world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • October 10 · 14 min

    Farming Seaweed

    Gareth Murphy's company Oir Na Farraige has found a low impact way of harvesting seaweed for a range of uses that might actually protect marine ecosystems. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • October 3 · 25 min

    Food Security: Bread

    Only the tiniest fraction of the flour needed to bake the 50kg of bread we eat a year is grown and milled in Ireland, and the cost of what we import is sky rocketing. We take a look at what needs to be done to keep the price of bread down by making it here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • October 3 · 13 min

    EU Female Organic Farmer of The Year

    Following her victory in the EU's most prestigious organic award we visit Kay O'Sullivan at home on Glynn Organic Farm in North Cork. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 26 · 6 min

    Nest Protection Officer Training Programme

    Ireland's first certified Nest Protection Officer Training Programme was recently launched by Ministers Martin Heydon and Christopher O'Sullivan. It was developed by Owen Murphy and Donal Beagan of the publicly funded Breeding Waders EIP, with the training body Lantra, and supported by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Department of Agriculture. Donal Beagan spoke about how this new qualification sets a professional standard for the first time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 26 · 10 min

    Agriland/ICMSA Farmer Survey: Panel

    The survey was commissioned by Agriland and the ICMSA, and it shows it isn't only older farmers who want out. One in five farmers in their late forties and early fifties, which is young in this business, say they're likely to leave. Half of those planning to exit have no successor lined up. Yet the same survey says access to land is one of the biggest barriers for people trying to get into farming. So why aren't those leaving and those wanting in finding each other? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 26 · 5 min

    Agriland/ICMSA Farmer Survey

    During the week, a major new survey was published which suggests there will be an exodus of farmers in the next few years. In a comprehensive survey of Irish farmers - with 2,300 people responding across every sector and county - one in three farmers say they will leave farming within the next five years. Della Kilroy reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 26 · 10 min

    Agriland/ICMSA Farmer Survey: Panel

    The survey was commissioned by Agriland and the ICMSA, and it shows it isn't only older farmers who want out. One in five farmers in their late forties and early fifties, which is young in this business, say they're likely to leave. Half of those planning to exit have no successor lined up. Yet the same survey says access to land is one of the biggest barriers for people trying to get into farming. So why aren't those leaving and those wanting in finding each other? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 26 · 7 min

    School Cycle Bus

    Approx 5% of Irish children cycle to school every day. One idea trying to change that is the school cycle bus. It's a group of primary school children led by adult volunteers along a set route. Regan Hutchins joined the Skibbereen Cycle Bus in County Cork, to show it's a fun way to start the day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 26 · 5 min

    Natural Horsemanship

    Paul Walker is well known in the business for breeding, training and trialling sheepdogs. Now the Chilean-English trainer has turned his hand to horses at the home he shares with his partner Leah Henry in Mayo. Lorna Siggins reports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 26 · 7 min

    Seeds of Inspiration

    For a quarter of a century, John McKeon has been collecting seeds from the trees and hedgerows around his home near Castleblayney in Monaghan. The 75-year-old retired agricultural adviser has used them to grow more than twenty species of native tree, among them oak, holly, hazel and more. John's work is at the heart of 'Seeds of Inspiration', a project from the Irish Wildlife Trust and the Monaghan Biodiversity Office. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • September 19 · 6 min

    Apple Season

    If any of you have an apple tree in a park near you, on your farm or garden, you’ll notice how early the apples have appeared - very early. Con Traas's parents, Willem and Ali, came from Holland in 1967 looking for land to grow fruit. They found a farm with an old orchard in Tipperary, and the family has been growing apples there ever since. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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