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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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With an explosion in the deer population and a steep rise in the price of beef, might venison represent better value for money. Featuring gamekeeper Adam Gornik, Pat Doyle from Wild Irish Game and butcher Keith Grant.
Suzanne Campbell talks to Chef Jess Murphy about how to popularise a meat that has often been seen as elite.
The outgoing director assesses the state of the Irish environment, our commitment to preserving it and the performance of the agency on her watch.
Regan Hutchins travels on a Local Link bus from Bantry to Skibbereen to see why the service is about more than just getting from A to B.
Robert and Valerie Hovendon came down with Bovine Viral Diarrhea in 2025. Patrick Donohue from Animal Health Ireland explains why theirs might be among the last herds to be impacted.
Michael Feely is the chair of a group called the Young Sheep Farmer Forum who last month made recommendations to government on how to best promote generational renewal. The forum of young farmers is facilitated by the Kepak Group.
Joined by Cheryl Poole, Wexford dairy farmer, Seamus Boland, CEO of Irish Rural Link, Magaret Donnelly, Editor of the Irish Farming Independent, and Fintan Kelly, environmental pillar’s Agriculture and Land Use Policy Officer.
Reporter Ella McSweeney travels to Kerry and to a group of farmers tackling one of the hardy perennial issues – social isolation. This small group in and around Faranfore decided to do something to help their happiness: they agreed to meet in the Warehouse Cafe in Faranfore every Friday morning for breakfast.
Throughout 2025, the Countrywide team was on the open roads visiting homes and farms across the country, and here are some of the team's favorite pieces.
For this special edition of Countrywide, we have gathered stories of Christmas preparations from across the country and sprinkled them with music from RTE Lyric FM's ever popular Choirs for Christmas competition. (For copyright reasons the full tracks performed cannot be podcast)
Lorna Siggins meets Peter Connolly, Dara Bailey and Ray O Beara of Bádóirí an Chladaigh as they illuminate three traditional boats with Christmas lights in the Claddagh Basin.
Craft workshops, Carol singing, hot chocolate and Christmas decorations... It's all there at Kilfinane Intercultural Winterfest.
There’s an Irish Christmas food tradition from coastal communities that traveled the world. Salted White Fish, boiled potatoes, drowned in white sauce, served on Christmas Eve night. It has been observed as far afield as Newfoundland, but Aran Islanders lay special claim to it.
Frances Murphy is a candlemaker originally from Bere Island in West Cork. She is an aromatherapist and reflexologist who has developed her own range of sustainable candles.
Red Books is an independent bookstore located in Wexford town that sell new, previously loved, antiquarian and collectible books.
Following one year on from Philip's last visit, East Galway farmers Joe and Michael Dempsey have once again suffered another TB breakdown, leading to their farm going into lockdown. With calves being born all the time, many more expected in January, and no sale of animals off the farm allowed, Joe and Michael are struggling to cope.
Three more years of derogation from nitrates directive for 7,000 farms announced by the Department to prove to Brussels that derogation farms are not harming sensitive natural habitats. However, a report has revealed a further decline of Ireland’s natural habitats. Environmental lawyer Alice Whittaker and derogation farmer Gillian O'Sullivan.
Louping Ill is a serious tick borne disease, deriving from the distressing behaviour of infected sheep - including jumping - or louping. Now, a problem for hill farmers in the West of Ireland. With a vaccine potentially being brought to market, John Gibbons who farms near Tourmakeady, and vet Fiona Murphy explained to Lorna Siggins the impact.
Darina Allen of Ballymaloe Cookery School discusses how, long before Turkey became traditional, Goose was our Christmas roast of choice and had been since medieval times.
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