CountryWide Podcast
1) Countrywide 2025 Highlights
Throughout 2025, the Countrywide team was on the open roads visiting homes and farms across the country, and here are some of the team's favorite pieces.
2) Kilfinane Intercultural Winterfest
Craft workshops, Carol singing, hot chocolate and Christmas decorations... It's all there at Kilfinane Intercultural Winterfest.
3) To Inis Mor for salted white fish and boiled potatoes
There’s an Irish Christmas food tradition from coastal communities that traveled the world. Salted White Fish, boiled potatoes, drowned in white sauce, served on Christmas Eve night. It has been obser...Show More
4) Candle making in county Cork
Frances Murphy is a candlemaker originally from Bere Island in West Cork. She is an aromatherapist and reflexologist who has developed her own range of sustainable candles.
5) A family run bookshop in Wexford
Red Books is an independent bookstore located in Wexford town that sell new, previously loved, antiquarian and collectible books.
6) Geese
Darina Allen of Ballymaloe Cookery School discusses how, long before Turkey became traditional, Goose was our Christmas roast of choice and had been since medieval times.
7) TB Breakdown
Following one year on from Philip's last visit, East Galway farmers Joe and Michael Dempsey have once again suffered another TB breakdown, leading to their farm going into lockdown. With calves being ...Show More
8) Nitrates and Habitats
Three more years of derogation from nitrates directive for 7,000 farms announced by the Department to prove to Brussels that derogation farms are not harming sensitive natural habitats. However, a rep...Show More
9) Louping Ill
Louping Ill is a serious tick borne disease, deriving from the distressing behaviour of infected sheep - including jumping - or louping. Now, a problem for hill farmers in the West of Ireland. With a...Show More
10) Countrywide 13.12.25 Full Episode
Countrywide 13.12.25 Full Episode