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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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Craft workshops, Carol singing, hot chocolate and Christmas decorations... It's all there at Kilfinane Intercultural Winterfest.
1There’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.
Countrywide 13.12.25 Full Episode
Could a little grass-herb, dismissed in the past as a weed, play a key role in solving Ireland’s livestock/water quality issue? With Thomas Moloney, DLF Seeds; Thomas Duffy, dairy farmer.
A visit to the newly opened tourist facility which will also play a role in preserving the genetic heritage of our native pony. With Cathy Snow and Martin Coyne.
BBC Farming Journalist Anna Hill reports on the impacts of two years of the virus in England and Wales. Dept of Agriculture deputy chief veterinary officer, Dr Eoin Ryan, on what will happen if the virus is found in livestock south of the border.
PJ Davon, the lead Stonemason in Connemara National Park, tells Treasa Breathnach how to building a stone wall is part engineering exercise and part art form.
Countrywide 06/12/2025
A new anaerobic digester in Meath, one of the first of many, raises questions about where will all the grass to feed them come from? Minister Darragh O’Brien promises to publish the long awaited Land Use Review which will answer that question.
How do you relate to the landscape and what is going on in the countryside if you are blind or partially sighted. Suzanne Campbell reports from Gavin Cromwell’s racing yard using touch, smell and sound.
Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon shares new detail on what promises he had to make on improving water quality in order to secure the EU Commission’s support for a renewal of Ireland’s derogation from the Nitrates Directive.
Walking the banks of the River Nore, artist Bernadette Kiely tells Della Kilroy how she thinks rivers simultaneously shape the landscape and our sense of ourselves.
Just how historically accurate is the Netflix series about the brewing dynasty. In the grounds of Ashford Castle, one of the family’s many houses, historian Adrian Tinniswood fact checks the hit show.
Keith Brennan goes to one hell of a hooley in Tooreen dancehall in Mayo
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