Episodes

  • Stone Lifting

    Stone Lifting
    Jun 27 2026
    David Keohan, is a man on an archaeological quest to discover Ireland’s ancient lifting stones and revive a sport and culture – Stone Lifting – that has almost been erased from the landscape entirely.
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    19 mins
  • Granuaile

    Granuaile
    Jun 27 2026
    Lorna Siggins visits an all woman aerial circus production of the story of Grace O’Malley or Granuaile with the truly spectacular backdrop of the old pirate queen’s stomping ground of Clew Bay.
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    9 mins
  • Generational Renewal

    Generational Renewal
    Jun 27 2026
    A complicated problem we are facing in Farming is how to get younger people taking over the reins. Generational Renewal is the short hand. Our reporter Suzanne Campbell went in the company of some Nuffield Scholars to Cork to look at a shared farm.
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    9 mins
  • Egg Vending

    Egg Vending
    Jun 27 2026
    On Countrywide we feature farmers who are trying to bypass the middlemen and sell their product directly to consumers. The big problem they all have in common is they either find themselves tied to a single farmer’s market stall or strapped into a van doing deliveries. Step forward Cavan farmer Ben Tierney who runs ten egg vending machines.
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    7 mins
  • Countrywide Full Episode 27/06/26

    Countrywide Full Episode 27/06/26
    Jun 27 2026
    Countrywide Full Episode 27/06/26
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    47 mins
  • The Inishkea Islands

    The Inishkea Islands
    Jun 20 2026
    National Parks and Wildlife Service has taken the precaution of appointing a warden to make sure visitors know how to tread softly on the Inishkea Islands. And Ella McSweeney took a rib out to Inishkea south and was joined by the person behind the idea, Irene O’Brien.
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    10 mins
  • War Zone Farmers

    War Zone Farmers
    Jun 20 2026
    This morning we looked at what farming is like in countries affected by war and climate change; Sudan, Lebanon, Ukraine. Given what the agronomists, the supply chain experts, the supermarket buyers are now saying about the global food system being tested to breaking point, Philip asked former President of Ireland Mary Robinson was she concerned.
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    29 mins
  • Meitheal

    Meitheal
    Jun 20 2026
    Keith Brennan, on Hawthorn Hill Farm in Roscommon, reflects on the power of Meitheal, and therefore found putting his back in to a shared job of work on a neighbour’s land helpful.
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    5 mins