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
Countrywide Full 11/05/24
5/11/2024
Countrywide Full 11/05/24
Duration:00:42:14
All about rhubarb
5/11/2024
With fruit and vegetable wholesale grower Barra Sweetman, and chef Eunice Power.
Duration:00:05:29
Training rescue dogs as farm dogs
5/11/2024
Sheep farmer Gerard Coyne is giving rescue dogs a second chance at life on his farm in County Galway.
Duration:00:07:25
Has land become a tax break for the wealthy?
5/11/2024
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.
Duration:00:04:44
Northern Lights
5/11/2024
Philip was up half the night to catch the Northern Lights.
Duration:00:02:14
Artificial Insemination or the science of breeding
5/11/2024
We speak to Dinny Galvin in West Kerry, and Dr Margaret Kelleher, Genetics Operations Manager with ICBF, the independent genetics advisory service for farmers.
Duration:00:21:19
Countrywide Full 04/05/24
5/4/2024
Countrywide Full 04/05/24
Duration:00:44:10
Ó’Máille Aran Sweaters Shop
5/4/2024
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
5/4/2024
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
5/4/2024
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?
5/4/2024
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
4/27/2024
Countrywide Full 27/04/24
Duration:00:42:33
Student entrepreneurs
4/27/2024
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
4/27/2024
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
4/27/2024
Marina Conway is the outgoing CEO of the Western Forestry Co-op.
Duration:00:13:52
That They May Face The Rising Sun
4/27/2024
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
4/20/2024
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
4/20/2024
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
4/20/2024
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
4/20/2024
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