CountryWide
RTE Ireland
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 on RTÉ Radio 1.
Location:
Dublin, Ireland
Networks:
RTE Ireland
Description:
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 on RTÉ Radio 1.
Twitter:
@RTECountryWide
Language:
English
Contact:
RTÉ Donnybrook Dublin 4 01 208 3111
Website:
http://www.rte.ie/
Email:
countrywide@rte.ie
Episodes
Irish Farm Book in colour
10/18/2025
Celebrating publication of the Irish Farm Book in colour, we visit Kinvara to see a uniaque collection of photos from the 1950s.
Duración:00:08:59
Comfort can sometimes be shaped like a hedgehog
10/18/2025
Maria Moynihan reflects on how she found comfort in nature, while grieving the loss of her firstborn.
Duración:00:04:17
Why are beef prices going up?
10/18/2025
Philip visits Balla Mart to see who is selling and the prices cattle are making.
Duración:00:31:11
Impact of the Blackwater fish kill on people living and working along the river
10/11/2025
During the week, Countrywide went to the lower reaches of the river catchment and talked to a few people who describe the Blackwater as part of their lives.
Duración:00:09:50
Fisherman in Iceland on the technology he uses to monitor water
10/11/2025
Haraldur Eiriksson runs a salmon fishing business 45km outside Reykjavik. The technology he uses gives him live readings of what is going on in the river.
Duración:00:03:23
Blackwater river fish kill
10/11/2025
Barry Fox, Deputy CEO of Inland Fisheries; Tom Ryan, a Director of the EPA with responsibility for environmental enforcement; Rick Officer CEO of the Marine Institute; Timmy Dooley, Minister of State with responsibility for fisheries and the marine.
Duración:00:46:05
Come October
10/4/2025
On the Burren in County Clare, farmers are preparing to move their livestock up onto the limestone pavement winterage in the hills. This traditional way of managing cows over winter is recorded in Jane Clarke’s poem, Come October.
Duración:00:01:18
The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature
10/4/2025
The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature by poet Jane Clarke and journalist Catherine Cleary, is a celebration of the quiet, hopeful revolution taking place across Ireland, where people are making space for nature to thrive once again.
Duración:00:07:40
The Living and the Dead
10/4/2025
Conor W O’Brien’s book The Living and The Dead, tales of Loss and Rebirth from Irish Nature is published by Merrion Press.
Duración:00:07:40
The Shepherd’s Life and English Pastoral
10/4/2025
James Rebanks is a farmer turned author in England’s Lake District. In his farming memoirs The Shepherd’s Life and English Pastoral, he tells his story of rightsizing an unprofitable, environmentally unsustainable farm.
Duración:00:07:08
Remnants of Our Past
10/4/2025
Walking during lockdown Deirdre O’Neill noticed how visible the fingerprints of history are on our landscape. This inspired her to chronicle as many of these ancient artefacts in fields around the country as she could find. The result is Remnants of Our Past, published by Gill Books.
Duración:00:07:20
Walls of Arainn
10/4/2025
Poet Jane Clarke reading Walls of Arainn, one of her poems from a new book called The Hare’s Corner.
Duración:00:01:03
Seventy Years in the Wild West
10/4/2025
Seventy Years in the Wild West is the story of Dhulough Farm, published by Mayo Books. It is a chronicle of the human disaster behind creating the biggest farm in Irish history.
Duración:00:09:26
Countrywide full episode: A special programme on new books about farms, rural life and nature
10/4/2025
A special programme on new books about farms, rural life and nature.
Duración:00:44:05
Countrywide Full Episode 27/09/2025
9/27/2025
Countrywide Full Episode 27/09/2025
Duración:00:46:31
Heritage apples from orchards in Roscommon, Clare and Cork
9/27/2025
Hundreds of farms across the country have taken advantage of support from the ACRES scheme to plant native apple trees on their farms, including varieties like Rose Hogan, the Beauty of Ballintaylor or the Dick Davies.
Duración:00:07:56
Féile na bPuiteachaí
9/27/2025
Féile na bPuiteachaí is a celebration of the blackberry on Inis Meán ar nOileann Arainn.
Duración:00:07:49
Harvesting rye
9/27/2025
Rye is in the same family as wheat and historically was used in distilling and thatching. Nowadays most farmers are planting rye for animal feed. With the rise in craft bakeries, rye is also going into baked goods. We visit a farmer and food seller benefitting from this very old but increasingly trendy grain.
Duración:00:07:58
How to restore river health
9/27/2025
The report on the River Blackwater fish kill published this week was inconclusive, with no enough evidence to say what was to blame for the largest fish kill in Irish history. We discuss the impact of the flow of rivers and river pollution, with Professors Fiona Regan and Mary Bourke.
Duración:00:21:34
Nature and Wildlife Farm Plan
9/20/2025
There is a scheme generating a lot of inquiries, the National Parks and Wildlife Service’s Farm Plan scheme. Tailored plans and financial support to make the switch to High Nature Value Farming. Philips visits one of these farms.
Duración:00:09:35