Cork Community Garden
The city's food festival, Cork on a Fork, has two more days to run. Some of the best of it isn't happening in restaurants at all. Up on the...
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Algal Bloom
It’s unfortunately become part of the summer in Ireland - reports of algal blooms on our lakes, some toxic, with county councils across the...
Rambling House
Every rural parish had homes where the latch was never down. They were called rambling houses, and they were a deeply held tradition in rura...
Uplands and Commonage
We’ll begin on the hills and it’s about commonage - land own between farmers. Roughly 400,000 hectares of farmland is held under commonage,...
Countrywide Full Episode 15/08/2026
Countrywide Full Episode 15/08/2026
Dublin Horse Show 2026
It's been one hundred years since Irish Army officers first jumped for their country, and now we are looking at how they’re marking the cent...
Little Terns
The season is nearly at an end for Ireland's smallest and rarest seabirds, Little Terns, and they'll soon be off on their journey south back...
Offshore Wind Farms
Five new wind farms are waiting on planning approval in the Irish Sea and it appears the sites line up with some of the best fishing grounds...
Water Shortages (continued)
It's not only Malcolm's farm affected, it's playing out on other farms, mainly in the south and southeast. So what does this actually mean f...
Water Shortages
In 2018, a summer drought hit Ireland hard, and farmers were counting the cost of it for months afterwards. This year, it's happening all ov...
Countrywide Full Episode 08/08/26
Countrywide Full Episode 08/08/26
The River Shannon: Part 2
We continue our River Shannon special. Ardnacrusha devastated salmon numbers; Castleconnell River Association works to bring them back. DCU'...
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...