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About the show

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.

Latest episodes

  • Countrywide Full Episode 10/10/26

    October 10, 2026 · 40 min

    How the seas and ocean around Ireland shape our lives and could change our future.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Silicon Valley of the Sea

    October 10, 2026 · 10 min

    Prof John Bell flips Ireland's idea of itself on its head. The country is not a peripheral island on the edge of Europe. It is a large maritime nation that could become a bio-economic super power.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…

  • Archiving Coastal Communities

    October 10, 2026 · 8 min

    The Creative Ireland visual arts project "Dunmore Through a Lens" has captured the Waterford fishing village's people and their memories. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Blue Wellbeing

    October 10, 2026 · 8 min

    Surfer and Academic Dr Easkey Britton believes that both we and the ocean will benefit by adjusting our relationship with the marine world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Farming Seaweed

    October 10, 2026 · 14 min

    Gareth Murphy's company Oir Na Farraige has found a low impact way of harvesting seaweed for a range of uses that might actually protect marine ecosystems. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • EU Female Organic Farmer of The Year

    October 3, 2026 · 14 min

    Following her victory in the EU's most prestigious organic award we visit Kay O'Sullivan at home on Glynn Organic Farm in North Cork.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Food Security: Bread

    October 3, 2026 · 26 min

    Only the tiniest fraction of the flour needed to bake the 50kg of bread we eat a year is grown and milled in Ireland, and the cost of what we import is sky rocketing. We take a look at what needs to be done to keep the price of bread down…

  • Nest Protection Officer Training Programme

    September 26, 2026 · 6 min

    Ireland's first certified Nest Protection Officer Training Programme was recently launched by Ministers Martin Heydon and Christopher O'Sullivan. It was developed by Owen Murphy and Donal Beagan of the publicly funded Breeding Waders EIP…