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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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We speak to Dinny Galvin in West Kerry, and Dr Margaret Kelleher, Genetics Operations Manager with ICBF, the independent genetics advisory service for farmers.
Philip was up half the night to catch the Northern Lights.
There is a trend of wealthy individuals buying agricultural land as a way of passing on their wealth to their children. With Denis Drennan, President of the ICMSA.
Sheep farmer Gerard Coyne is giving rescue dogs a second chance at life on his farm in County Galway.
With fruit and vegetable wholesale grower Barra Sweetman, and chef Eunice Power.
Countrywide Full 11/05/24
Donal Sheehan rents half of his farm. When that half was put on the market recently, he could not afford to buy it. Also with Michael Brady, Agricultural Consultant, MD Brady Group; Daniel Long, Tipperary farmer; Dr Brian Leonard, Sligo farmer and Assistant Professor at the School of Agriculture and Food Science, UCD.
Hannah Quinn Mulligan and grandmother Catherine have moved to milking on a small scale, which has brought new breeds of cows into the yard.
The Big River Watch is a citizen science project being run this weekend all over Ireland and Britain to record and identify what kind of condition our rivers are in.
When they pull the door behind them at the close of business today, Ger and Anne Ó’Máille will mark the end of a family business that first opened in 1938.
Countrywide Full 04/05/24
As they went about the morning's work feeding the calves on the farm, Hannah Quinn Mulligan and her Granny discuss 'That They May Face The Rising Sun', a new film based on the novel by John McGahern.
Marina Conway is the outgoing CEO of the Western Forestry Co-op.
Many Polish people chose to come to live and work in Ireland in the years since the European Union expansion. In Limerick, St Michael's Church on Denmark Street is known locally as the Polish Church.
In ten days time, more than eighty young entrepreneurs from around the country will gather in Mullingar for the Student Enterprise Awards organised by the Local Enterprise Offices.
Countrywide Full 27/04/24
Tirlán, the largest Dairy Co-Op in the country, has been working on its response to the possible loss of a derogation from the EU Nitrates Directive. Countrywide speaks to Alan and Cheryl Poole, dairy farmers with a very light footprint.
Philips speaks to the outgoing Tirlán chief executive about the co-op's response to the possible loss of the derogation under the EU Nitrates Directive.
Recently, Alanagh Ní Chongaile Ní Ghríofa has been spending a lot of time drinking tea and recording conversations with two ninety-something gentlemen in East Galway. Lorna Siggins took a lift with Alanagh to Sean O'Murchada's home, where she met the man himself, his daughter Breeda, and his dog Tess.
Returning to the issue of Ireland's pursuit of a derogation from the EU Nitrates Directive, we hear from Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College.
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