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Philip Boucher Hayes walked around Bloom chatting to exhibitors, from a salvia grower to a blacksmith.

Countrywide Full 01/06/24

Farmers from the Rathcroghan area of County Roscommon have created a silver medal garden at Bloom, which reflects an archaeologically rich landscape near the village of Tulsk.

Philip Boucher Hayes chats to gardeners at Bloom.

Declan O'Rourke chats about the 20th anniversary of his first album 'Since Kyabram'

Philip Boucher Hayes is at Bloom speaking to food producers.

Countrywide Full 25/05/24

Lessons in how to run a National Park from the Superintendent of Yosemite National Park.

The Horse's Mouth is a mentorship programme run by Farming for Nature, where one of their farmer ambassadors will visit your farm to have a one-to-one chat about how you'd like to shape it to help improve biodiversity.

Scientists at World Weather Attribution have just completed a study into what role climate change did or didn't play in the unusually large number of storms between last autumn and this spring.

Musicians Sadhbh O’Sullivan and Sharon Murphy met in 2015 when they began working together a dementia-friendly choir based in Naas, Co. Kildare. Since then they have collaborated with organisations like the Irish Hospice Foundation and the HSE. Brenda Donohue went to see them at work in Celbridge at one of their their Sip & Serenade sessions.

Countrywide Full 18/05/24

The Teagasc FBD Student of the Year awards take place next Tuesday night in the Heritage Hotel in Portlaoise, with 15 finalists.

The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean by Dr Olive Heffernan, is published next week.

With Lorcan Roche Kelly

Meath farmer Helen Hughes is sadly no stranger to the potential hazards of the farmyard having lost her father fifteen years ago to a farm accident.

Countrywide Full 11/05/24

With fruit and vegetable wholesale grower Barra Sweetman, and chef Eunice Power.

Sheep farmer Gerard Coyne is giving rescue dogs a second chance at life on his farm in County Galway.

There is a trend of wealthy individuals buying agricultural land as a way of passing on their wealth to their children. With Denis Drennan, President of the ICMSA.