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Today: #170 in Arts, Ireland on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 11 | #170 | #170 |
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The Lie of the Land: Ireland's Broken Food System
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Former Minister Pippa Hackett on trying to change Ireland’s food system
August 19, 2026 · 1 hr 13 minChanging a country’s food system takes longer than an election cycle. In this episode of Food Matters, Mick Kelly speaks with organic farmer and former Minister of State Pippa Hackett about what it takes to pursue long-term change from…
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The small family farm that bet it all on organic
July 10, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minWhat would make a conventional tillage farmer walk away from the type of farming he had always practised and start all over again? For Kevin Scully, founder of The Merry Mill organic farm & mill in County Laois, the turning point came in…
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Could there be another famine in Ireland?
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The Burren and the Future of Farming, with Brendan Dunford
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The fragility of food production and the economics behind Ireland’s food security risk
April 14, 2026 · 54 minJim Power is one of Ireland's best-known economists. Having grown up on a farm in County Waterford, he has always had a particular passion for the economics of food production and farming. Jim recently crunched 20 years of consumer data…
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S3 Ep35: Deep Medicine - Rethinking Food, Health and the Modern Food System with Dr. Rupa Marya
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S3 Ep34: Bringing Chef Skills Home: Eimear Brazil's Journey from Canada to The Kitchen Shift
February 11, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minHaving spent over 15 years cooking in professional kitchens across Ireland and Canada, Eimear Brazil hung up her chef's apron to dedicate herself to inspiring a generation of home cooks. After training at Waterford IT and working in…
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S3 Ep33: Baking real bread and building communities, with Sarah Richards of Seagull Bakery
January 15, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minSarah Richards always thought she would make her living as an artist. To support her painting, she began baking real sourdough bread, selling loaves from the boot of her car around Tramore, Co. Waterford. What started as a side project…
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S3 Ep32: Growing at Grantstown, with David Currid
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S3 Ep31: Buy Irish honey, save Ireland’s bees, with Aoife Nic Giolla Coda
October 29, 2025 · 1 hr 8 minAoife Nic Giolla Coda’s love of beekeeping was passed down from her father, Micheál, who founded Galtee Honey Farm in 1970. When her father neared retirement, Aoife returned home to take over Galtee Honey Farm, determined to continue her…
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S3 Ep30: Saving Seeds, Securing the Future, with Madeline McKeever
September 10, 2025 · 56 minMadeline McKeever is on a mission to protect biodiversity and secure our food future—one seed at a time. A former dairy farmer in West Cork, Madeline started Brown Envelope Seeds after realising just how vulnerable Ireland is to global…