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The Rural Cycling Collective
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a child in rural Ireland, will it ever be an option for you to cycle safely to school? The Rural Cycling Collective, which is part of the ...
Roscommon entrepreneur John Stapleton
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ella McSweeney speaks to entrepreneur, investor and food king, Roscommon’s John Stapleton. Go to johnstapleton.eu for more information.See omnystudi...
On board a traditional barge travelling along the Grand Canal from Sallins in Kildare
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Countrywide decided to hop on board a traditional barge which travels along the Grand Canal from Sallins in Kildare, joining other passengers to explo...
Countrywide Full Episode 23/08/2025
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Countrywide Full Episode 23/08/2025.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A New Yorker returns to a Sligo farm
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the country, although the vacant property grant has breathed new life into old, empty homes, plenty still sit untouched. In the town land o...
The demise of small abattoirs
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The demise of small abattoirs around the country has been decades in the making, but farmers producing small quantities of meat for local consumption ...
Growing seaweed in West Cork
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The economy of many coastal communities has changed in recent decades from fishing towards other marine-based industries. Lorna Siggins went to West C...
Celebrating Irish native rare breed farm animals
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Sunday, the Irish Native Rare Breed Society will have a celebration of all their animals at Bunratty Castle in Clare. On 24th August they’ll be a...
Harvest 2025
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All around the country you might have seen combine harvesters and tractors on the roads and in the fields cutting the crops and bringing them in. Over...
Fears of fish wipeout on the Blackwater river in Cork
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this week, reports emerged of a fish kill on the river Blackwater, initially believed to affect an eight-kilometer stretch between Mallow and ...
Fuddlefest
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Preparations are in full swing in Fuddlestown, Co Wexford, for an on-farm local music festival taking place on the last weekend in August. Fuddlefest....
Countrywide Full Episode 16/08/2025
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Countrywide Full Episode 16/08/2025See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Countrywide Full Episode 09/08/2025
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Countrywide Full Episode 09/08/2025, live from the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
An essay by Janet Heeran
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Heeran writes about life as it unfolds on her husband's farm and in the classroom where she teaches. Here she remembers the 1954 Dublin Horse Sh...
What becomes of retired racehorses?
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For quite a few years, the Sport Horse industry has been trying to help the Racehorse industry with one of its knottiest problems. What becomes of ret...
Breeder Mary McCann
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mary McCann is something of a legend in Sport Horse circles, having bred some of the most successful showjumpers in the history of the sport. She brou...
Class 93 - The Working Hunter Pony
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the programme, we keep an eye on Class 93 - The Working Hunter Pony (Starter Stakes).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chef d'équipe Michael Blake on the Aga Khan Trophy
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The centre piece of the Dublin Horse Show is the Nations Cup for the Aga Khan Trophy. The man behind the Irish team is Michael Blake from Tuamgraney.S...
The Cat Candy
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Cat Candy is a tan and white pony, owned by David Kelly, and ridden by 11 year old Freya Kavanagh. This year, it is competing in Class 93 - The Wo...
Two new donkey foals born in Clifden
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donkeys are not native to Ireland, but were brought here from the Middle East and North Africa in the 17th century. A century ago there were 250,000 o...
Farmers step up to protect the corncrake on Inishbofin
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the corncrake today, Ireland is a hostile place. In response to the threat of their extinction here, just under €6 million in public funding was...
Access to Irish walking trails
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While there are more walking routes and trails around the country than ever before, access to the Irish countryside depends on the goodwill and cooper...
On a walking trail in Mayo
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2008, the Walks Scheme was set up to help open up more walking routes across the country on private land. Last weekend, about 7,000 people mad...
Trump’s Tariffs: What’s the impact on agricultural exports to the US?
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over 4.2 billion euro of goods and services cross the Atlantic every day between the EU and the US, and including Irish butter, cheese and whiskey. Fo...
Countrywide Full Episode 02/08/2025
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Countrywide Full Episode 02/08/2025.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Enjoying a long table dinner at Ballyholey Farm
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Graham is a vegetable farmer near Raphoe and over the last few years he’s run an honesty box, a farm shop and sold his vegetables in Letterkenn...
CAP negotiations panel discussion
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Denis Drennan, President of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association; Karen Mannion, CEO of Forum Connemara; Ruth Hegarty, Director of Food Polic...
EU farm subsidies proposals
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bartosz Brzezinski, Brussels reporter with the global news organisation Politico, brings us up to date with the EU farm subsidies proposals.See omnyst...
A visit to 26-year-old Sophie Bell's farm in Cavan
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Bell is 26 years old and she farms 59 acres just outside Virginia in Cavan. Having studied agriculture in Harper Adams University in the UK, sh...
Celebrating summer rituals with Vincent Woods
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Poet, playwright, and broadcaster, Vincent Woods grew up on a small farm in County Leitrim in the 1960s and caught a glimpse of the summer rituals.See...
Countrywide Full Programme 26/07/2025
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Countrywide Full Programme 26/07/2025See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Countrywide Bog Special
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ella McSweeney looks at how our relationship with the bog has changed over the past few years, from one of extraction and peat production, to one of c...
Saving Abbeyleix Bog
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
25 years ago, 37 locals protested to save Abbeyleix Bog, now a local centre for locals, tourists and nature.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...
A visit to Carbery Bog
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ella McSweeney visits Carbery Bog, which the community has owned and managed for 120 years.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.