Countrywide Full Episode 02/08/2025.

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John Graham is a vegetable farmer near Raphoe and over the last few years he’s run an honesty box, a farm shop and sold his vegetables in Letterkenny’s farmers market. He also hosts long-table dinners on his farm.

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Denis Drennan, President of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association; Karen Mannion, CEO of Forum Connemara; Ruth Hegarty, Director of Food Policy Ireland and a board member of Talamh Beo.

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Bartosz Brzezinski, Brussels reporter with the global news organisation Politico, brings us up to date with the EU farm subsidies proposals.

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Sophie Bell is 26 years old and she farms 59 acres just outside Virginia in Cavan. Having studied agriculture in Harper Adams University in the UK, she returned home and two years ago went into partnership with her father.

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Poet, playwright, and broadcaster, Vincent Woods grew up on a small farm in County Leitrim in the 1960s and caught a glimpse of the summer rituals.

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Countrywide Full Programme 26/07/2025

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Ella McSweeney looks at how our relationship with the bog has changed over the past few years, from one of extraction and peat production, to one of creation and restoration.

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25 years ago, 37 locals protested to save Abbeyleix Bog, now a local centre for locals, tourists and nature.

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Ella speaks to Tom Ryan, EPA Director of Enforcement

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