CountryWide

Countrywide Full Episode 22/02/2025

Funeral director, Brídín McGowan on how music helps through grief.

Farmers on financial stress of delays in Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme cheques.

Founder and director of Silent Cinema Adam Scheffler on taking silent classics out to summer festivals in rural areas.

Professor Frank O'Mara explains how the life of a calf born in 2005 differs from one born in 2025.

Head of Veterinary Ireland, Hazell Mullins on realities of calving and dairy farming

Countrywide Full Episode 15/02/2025.

Alice Ward is a surfer and film maker based in Sligo. Together with João Tudella, she has made a film which has already won several awards. Entitled Salt and part-funded by Cystic Fibrosis Ireland, it aims to spread awareness about living life with her own CF condition, and the positive benefits she derives from spending time in the Atlantic.

Dr Emma Dillon, Senior Researcher at Teagasc.

Dr Olena Melnyk, Associate Professor at the University of Sumy in Ukraine.

After a deer population increase in the last few years, the government appointed a strategy group in 2022. And just this week it awarded a management contract to a co-op to set up 15 local deer management units around the country.

Countrywide Full Episode 08/02/2025

Returning to our winter nights theme, and ahead of National Singing Week, Countrywide went to a rehearsal with the Claregalway Community Choir. www.singireland.ie

Elaine Houlihan is the 39th president of Macra Na Feirme, the Irish voluntary rural youth organisation.

John Daly is an economist, working with the Northern and Western Regional Assembly, which was established about ten years ago to foster regional development.

In our series about what to get up to during these winter nights, we heard about the Blackrock Howlers, who gather once a month, under the full moon to chat, to swim, and as the name suggests, to howl.

Since the first of the month, land owners have been allowed to spread slurry. Since the first of the year, the number of farms that have to do this in a way that reduces emissions has increased hugely.

Countrywide speaks to trainer and former champion jockey Johnny Murtagh.

Countrywide went to visit Farming for Nature Ambassador Bridget Murphy in Sligo. She speaks about the importance of neighbours as she wrestled with repairs to stone walls toppled by falling trees.

Countrywide Full Episode 01/02/2025