Countrywide Full Episode 31.10.26
Countrywide Full Episode 31.10.26
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CountryWide
Damien O'Reilly and 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...
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Wondering Wild
Forest School Leader Laura Kennedy on getting kids out of the classroom and living life by the Celtic Calendar.
A Day in the Life...
Of Waterford City and County cemeteries manger, Paul Flynn.
Wicker Coffins
If a sustainable life is possible, might it also be possible to die a sustainable death. Rachel Breslin talks to Green Coffins owner, Colin...
Crows – Emissaries from the Other Realm
On the day when the veil between this world and the afterlife is at its thinnest crows and ravens passed freely between the realms. Roger O'...
Pumpkin Harvest
Most pumpkin farms were badly hit by the summer drought, except (eerily) Tom Dillon's farm at the foot of the hill where Samhain was invente...
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 fi...
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...
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 co...
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...
Countrywide Full Episode 17/10/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 17/10/2026
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 f...
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 sta...
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...
Rutting Season
On Hawthorn Hill Farm in Roscommon Keith Brennan contemplates the unearthly call of the amorous fallow deer
Countrywide Full Episode 10/10/26
How the seas and ocean around Ireland shape our lives and could change our future.
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 marit...
Archiving Coastal Communities
The Creative Ireland visual arts project "Dunmore Through a Lens" has captured the Waterford fishing village's people and their memories.
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.
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 mar...