CountryWide

Countrywide Full Episode 16/11/2024

Mayo farmer Sinéad Moran, one of the earlier ambassadors of the Farming For Nature scheme, speaks about what she has learned and how the scheme helped her business. And we look at the new handbook by farmers for farmers: "A Practical Guide To Protecting And Restoring Nature On Your Farm"

Kerry Group is asking its shareholders if it can sell off most of its dairy business, a big change with a potentially big impact on farming. With Lorcan Roche Kelly, agri-business editor with the Irish Farmers Journal.

Brenda Donohue meets 70 year-old horse trainer Eleanor Broderick in Fermoy.

Poet Jane Clarke grew up on a farm in County Roscommon, and farming and nature are woven through her work.

There were 83 watch stations on cliff and mountain tops around the country, each with its own numbered Éire sign, made with white stones and visible from the sky. Lorna Siggins hiked up to Éire 63 in County Mayo with a community group who have restored the coast watch station.

We got news on Countrywide this week of a very large fish kill in a Salmon Farm in Donegal – that was caused by an inundation of Jellyfish. Then separately we got more jellyfish related news at completely the other end of the country from Donegal. Philip Boucher Hayes went to investigate

Well, we have all heard of the phrase, it takes a village, that is certainly the case in Ballinahown, Co Westmeath, which has been named as Ireland’s Tidiest Village at this year’s SuperValu TidyTowns competition.

A Town Scientist is a pilot programme developed and delivered by Dundalk native Dr Niamh Shaw, scientist, engineer, communicator, and performer. It aims to work with people from local communities to make science more accessible and to break down barriers that often keep people from engaging with scientific topics.

IFA President Francie Gorman