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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 16/11/2024
Mayo farmer Sinéad Moran, one of the earlier ambassadors of the Farming For Nature scheme, speaks about what she has learned and how the scheme helped her business. And we look at the new handbook by farmers for farmers: "A Practical Guide To Protecting And Restoring Nature On Your Farm"
Kerry Group is asking its shareholders if it can sell off most of its dairy business, a big change with a potentially big impact on farming. With Lorcan Roche Kelly, agri-business editor with the Irish Farmers Journal.
Brenda Donohue meets 70 year-old horse trainer Eleanor Broderick in Fermoy.
Poet Jane Clarke grew up on a farm in County Roscommon, and farming and nature are woven through her work.
There were 83 watch stations on cliff and mountain tops around the country, each with its own numbered Éire sign, made with white stones and visible from the sky. Lorna Siggins hiked up to Éire 63 in County Mayo with a community group who have restored the coast watch station.
We got news on Countrywide this week of a very large fish kill in a Salmon Farm in Donegal – that was caused by an inundation of Jellyfish. Then separately we got more jellyfish related news at completely the other end of the country from Donegal. Philip Boucher Hayes went to investigate
Well, we have all heard of the phrase, it takes a village, that is certainly the case in Ballinahown, Co Westmeath, which has been named as Ireland’s Tidiest Village at this year’s SuperValu TidyTowns competition.
A Town Scientist is a pilot programme developed and delivered by Dundalk native Dr Niamh Shaw, scientist, engineer, communicator, and performer. It aims to work with people from local communities to make science more accessible and to break down barriers that often keep people from engaging with scientific topics.
IFA President Francie Gorman
Tami Joy is an Irish American farmer transplanted from Washington State to Co Galway. She now runs an agri tourism enterprise, where you can tour their farm, dine on their produce, stay the night and take part in workshops.
Naturalist and author Declan Murphy took us on a tour to see plants and animals that are under threat.
At the end of last winter, as a pilot project, Galway city's Biodiversity Officer asked Lackagh farmer Keith Fahy if he would allow five of this Dexter cattle to graze the meadows beside Ballyloughane Beach. Would conservation grazing improve plant life?
Journalist Orla Dwyer updates us on the latest UN global biodiversity summit in Colombia.
Countrywide Full Episode 02/11/2024
Catherine Cleary's endeavours to restore Ireland’s natural woodlands and protect biodiversity in her farm in County Roscommon are the subject of a new documentary by artist Beta Bajgart called Forest Midwife.
We are at a very interesting threshold in forest ownership in Ireland. The past century was mainly about the state investing in publicly owned forestry. But we are now at a tipping point where just fifty percent of forests in Ireland are now owned privately, and that number continues to grow.
There are hugely ambitious projects going on within our National Parks. For example, the largest conversion of commercial spruce forestry to native woodland in the history of the state in Nephin National Park. And the largest attempted restoration of a native woodland in the history of the state in Glenveagh National Park in Donegal.
A project in the Burren has identified an ancient stand of Irish pine and the Burrenbeo Trust is now conserving this unique variety for future generations.
If you were a householder in 2000 the government sent you a certificate with a number telling you where in the country they had planted an oak tree on your behalf. Countrywide went to see if those trees are still standing.
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