CountryWide

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NATURAL SCIENCES
UPDATED BIWEEKLY

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.

4D AGO

A family run bookshop in Wexford

Red Books is an independent bookstore located in Wexford town that sell new, previously loved, antiquarian and collectible books.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6 min
4D AGO

Candle making in county Cork

Frances Murphy is a candlemaker originally from Bere Island in West Cork. She is an aromatherapist and reflexologist who has developed her own range of sustainable candles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7 min
4D AGO

Kilfinane Intercultural Winterfest

Craft workshops, Carol singing, hot chocolate and Christmas decorations... It's all there at Kilfinane Intercultural Winterfest.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7 min
4D AGO

To Inis Mor for salted white fish and boiled potatoes

There’s an Irish Christmas food tradition from coastal communities that traveled the world. Salted White Fish, boiled potatoes, drowned in white sauce, served on Christmas Eve night. It has been observed as far afield as Newfoundland, but Aran Islanders lay special claim to it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10 min
DEC 13

Countrywide 13.12.25 Full Episode

Countrywide 13.12.25 Full EpisodeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

45 min
DEC 13

Geese

Darina Allen of Ballymaloe Cookery School discusses how, long before Turkey became traditional, Goose was our Christmas roast of choice and had been since medieval times.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

8 min
DEC 13

Louping Ill

Louping Ill is a serious tick borne disease, deriving from the distressing behaviour of infected sheep - including jumping - or louping. Now, a problem for hill farmers in the West of Ireland. With a vaccine potentially being brought to market, John Gibbons who farms near Tourmakeady, and vet Fiona Murphy explained to Lorna Siggins the impact.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

9 min
DEC 13

Nitrates and Habitats

Three more years of derogation from nitrates directive for 7,000 farms announced by the Department to prove to Brussels that derogation farms are not harming sensitive natural habitats. However, a report has revealed a further decline of Ireland’s natural habitats. Environmental lawyer Alice Whittaker and derogation farmer Gillian O'Sullivan discusses.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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.