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Countrywide Full 04/05/24

Duration:00:44:10

Ó’Máille Aran Sweaters Shop

When they pull the door behind them at the close of business today, Ger and Anne Ó’Máille will mark the end of a family business that first opened in 1938.

Duration:00:07:14

Big River Watch

The Big River Watch is a citizen science project being run this weekend all over Ireland and Britain to record and identify what kind of condition our rivers are in.

Duration:00:03:08

Bulling heifers on the farm with Hannah Quinn Mulligan

Hannah Quinn Mulligan and grandmother Catherine have moved to milking on a small scale, which has brought new breeds of cows into the yard.

Duration:00:08:07

Is land now too expensive to produce food on?

Donal Sheehan rents half of his farm. When that half was put on the market recently, he could not afford to buy it. Also with Michael Brady, Agricultural Consultant, MD Brady Group; Daniel Long, Tipperary farmer; Dr Brian Leonard, Sligo farmer and Assistant Professor at the School of Agriculture and Food Science, UCD.

Duration:00:24:25

Countrywide Full 27/04/24

Countrywide Full 27/04/24

Duration:00:42:33

Student entrepreneurs

In ten days time, more than eighty young entrepreneurs from around the country will gather in Mullingar for the Student Enterprise Awards organised by the Local Enterprise Offices.

Duration:00:08:48

Cantate Deo Polish Choir in Limerick

Many Polish people chose to come to live and work in Ireland in the years since the European Union expansion. In Limerick, St Michael's Church on Denmark Street is known locally as the Polish Church.

Duration:00:09:12

Forester Marina Conway

Marina Conway is the outgoing CEO of the Western Forestry Co-op.

Duration:00:13:52

That They May Face The Rising Sun

As they went about the morning's work feeding the calves on the farm, Hannah Quinn Mulligan and her Granny discuss 'That They May Face The Rising Sun', a new film based on the novel by John McGahern.

Duration:00:08:29

Kitty's Kitchen

There has been record hospitality growth in The Netherlands, and there's a new vegan cafe, run by an Irishwoman, enjoying the boom. Colette Kinsella visited Kitty's Kitchen in The Hague.

Duration:00:07:46

Alan Matthews

Returning to the issue of Ireland's pursuit of a derogation from the EU Nitrates Directive, we hear from Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College.

Duration:00:04:53

Seán O'Murchadha

Recently, Alanagh Ní Chongaile Ní Ghríofa has been spending a lot of time drinking tea and recording conversations with two ninety-something gentlemen in East Galway. Lorna Siggins took a lift with Alanagh to Sean O'Murchada's home, where she met the man himself, his daughter Breeda, and his dog Tess.

Duration:00:07:30

Jim Bergin

Philips speaks to the outgoing Tirlán chief executive about the co-op's response to the possible loss of the derogation under the EU Nitrates Directive.

Duration:00:11:58

The Pooles

Tirlán, the largest Dairy Co-Op in the country, has been working on its response to the possible loss of a derogation from the EU Nitrates Directive. Countrywide speaks to Alan and Cheryl Poole, dairy farmers with a very light footprint.

Duration:00:11:01

'It's getting people to talk about Country', says Nathan Carter

Nathan Carter gives us his take on Beyoncé's new album Cowboy Carter.

Duration:00:08:02

Growing and milling gluten-free organic oats at the Merry Mill

Down in Vicarstown in County Laois, the Scully family are busy on Merry Mill Farm where they grow and mill their own certified, gluten-free organic oats.

Duration:00:08:10

Niamh Lenehan, Ireland's first Agri-Food Regulator

Five years ago, the EU asked member states to each establish an office to ensure fair practices in food supply chains and transparency in how they operate. Four month since the creation of that body, we speak to the first Irish Agri-Food regulator Niamh Lenehan.

Duration:00:10:57

When selling the family farm is the only option

West Wicklow farmers Mervyn and Dorothy Fairbrother built up a herd of dairy cows over the past thirty years. But the past few years have been so challenging, that they have decided to see the house, farm and beloved herd.

Duration:00:11:40

Countrywide Full 06/04/24