Treasa Bhreathnach

Hello, good morning.

We are coming to you this morning from beside Astley Falls, just outside Linan on the Galway-Mayo border.

If you are an angling fan, this stretch of the Arif River is a mecca for you for salmon and for sea trout.

If you're a movie buff, this is where Bull McCabe killed the yank.

If you're a lover of landscape, this ancient one is something of an object of absolute fascination.

culture, people, geology and landscape.

All ideas contained within the newly created UNESCO, United Nations Geopark, which this is right in the middle of.

What is a geopark?

What does it mean for the people living here?

Will it be a practical support?

Will it bring maybe a few too many tourists to the area?

All ideas that we'll be exploring between now and nine.

We kick off

at the formal opening and dedication of the Geopark earlier on this week in Clonbur.

My colleague Trasa Vranach was there and was talking to one of the main movers and shakers behind the Geopark, Trish Walsh.

And the UNESCO flag was raised in the village.

So let us go all in on trees for today's programme.

We have talked before about silvopasture, a kind of agroforestry that gets trees, grass and cattle working together as a resilient ecosystem.

Cattle graze amongst the trees planted in the grassland.

It's a system that is attracting new converts all the time.