Following a school tour for Leaving Cert Ag Science students in a farmyard in Offaly.

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Trinity College Dublin botanist, Dr Catherine Farrell, discusses voluntary rewetting.

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Looking for a roadmap through the polycrisis for food producers and farmers with Professor Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy in the Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.

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Four tonnes of greenhouse gases are seeping out of drained farmland and turf-cut bog, a figure we are legally obliged to make significant cuts to. The government has now embarked on trying to persuade farmers to voluntarily rewet their land to achieve those cuts.

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Tonight, the red carpet will be rolled out in North Cork for the Kildorrery GAA Film Awards. Local enthusiasts have created versions of seven popular movies for tonight's Gala screening and awards ceremony. In doing this, they have raised more than 80,000 euro for their local GAA astro-turf pitch.

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Nuala Moore's book Limitless tells her story of swimming around Ireland and abroad, including swimming across the Bering Straits between Alaska and Siberia, and being the first person to navigate Cape Horn by swimming across the meridian from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

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Countrywide Full Episode 08/03/2025.

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Philip Boucher-Hayes asks Spokesperson on Agriculture and Rural development Martin Kenny TD, how his party's agriculture policy differs from the government's.

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While the threat of Avian flu persists, will vaccinating provide a solution? Professor Gerald Barry from University College Dublin explains.

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Last year Brenda visited Katherine O'Leary on the farm in Cork as she was recuperating from cancer treatment. Unfortunately, since then she's had bad news, but as you will hear Brenda dropped in again this week and Katherine is resilient, surrounded by a loving family.

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