The River Shannon: Part 2
We continue our River Shannon special. Ardnacrusha devastated salmon numbers; Castleconnell River Association works to bring them back. DCU'...
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The River Shannon: Part 1
Today's show is a River Shannon special. We hear the sound of the Curlew on Lough Ree, Colin Stafford Johnson, nature and wildlife cinematog...
Countrywide Full Episode 25/07/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 25/07/2026
The Green Loy
The loy is a long, narrow spade that broke hard ground for generations. A new exhibition at The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon, The Green Loy is...
ECO-UNESCO'S Eco-Choices
ECO-UNESCO, Ireland's environmental education and youth organisation has built a whole programme around the idea that time outdoors is good...
Croagh Patrick Stakeholders
Tomorrow is Reek Sunday - when thousands of people will make their way up Croagh Patrick. Over ten years ago, Martin Keating decided to do s...
Farming and mental health in Ireland
Louise McHugh is a professor of psychology and the deputy head in the school of psychology at UCD, and she’s been involved in researching me...
Countrywide Full Episode 18/07/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 18/07/2026
The Sheep Show Podcast
The Sheep Show podcast is a weekly podcast both presenters are sheep farmers, but the twist is they are brother and sister, and the double t...
Keith Brennan
On Hawthorn Hill Farm in North Roscommon, Keith Brennan has been shearing his sheep.
Wool Logs
It costs farmers more to shear sheep than they get for wool, as we haven’t scaled up uses for wool in Ireland. Now, in order to re-wet bogs...
The Galway Sheep
Today at Athenry Mart, President Connolly will be at the 6th national harvest of wool. It’s a meitheal organised by the Galway Wool Co-op. T...
Wool Shearing
Charles Hughes, sheep farmer in Co Mayo tells Philip all about the process of shearing sheep in the current hot climate we're experiencing....
Countrywide Full Episode 11/07/26
Countrywide Full Episode 11/07/26
Raspberries
The Conroy family have been growing raspberries for 75 years pretty close to the foot of the Sugarloaf, and unlike most soft fruit producers...
The Longford Island farmer
For generations, the Farrell family has farmed Inis Cloithreann Island on Lough Ree, a tradition that stretches back more than 900 years. To...
Denis Drennan
Denis Drennan, president of the ICMSA discusses the impact that the ever changing climate is having on Ireland's agricultural sector.
Climate Adaptation
What does being well adapted to occasional blasts of this kind of heat look like? While simultaneously being adapted to increasing blasts of...
Heat Stress on Farms
We looked at challenges farmers are facing , dairy farmers in particular as they try to look after animals that were not designed for these...
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann
Ahead of Comhaltas Ceolteori Eireann’s 75th anniversary, we had some of Ireland's best musicians in studio: Robert Harvey on Whistling and f...