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.
Latest episodes
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43 min
Countrywide Full Episode 24/10/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 24/10/2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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9 min
Karina Pierce
The Agriculture faculty in UCD is 100 years old this year. Philip meets their newly appointed Dean of Faculty, Professor Karina Pierce to find out what her department is doing to m…
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13 min
Hometree's "Defining Moment" for Nature
With EU funding for farming with nature in retreat is this the moment that private finance might fill the gap. Ronan Doherty has transferred his fundraising skills from the renewab…
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9 min
LIFE Projects Under Threat
There are 52 EU funded LIFE projects currently running in Ireland with ambitious climate and environment goals. But the funding for these could be wrapped up over the course of the…
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11 min
Poll na bPeist Rescue
The wormhole on Inis Mor is ever more popular with tourists thanks to viral cliff diving social media posts. But few are aware how dangerous it is to even walk around it. Lorna Sig…
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44 min
Countrywide Full Episode 17/10/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 17/10/2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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…
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14 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…
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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 omn…
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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.
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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.
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10 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-econo…
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8 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 inf…
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8 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 i…
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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/listen…
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14 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 inform…
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26 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 loo…
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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 an…
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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…
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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 p…