Podcast Episodes

Countrywide Full Episode 25/07/2026

Countrywide Full Episode 25/07/2026

2 months ago

Wool Shearing

Charles Hughes, sheep farmer in Co Mayo tells Philip all about the process of shearing sheep in the current hot climate we're experiencing. However, …

2 months, 1 week ago

The Galway Sheep

Today at Athenry Mart, President Connolly will be at the 6th national harvest of wool. It’s a meitheal organised by the Galway Wool Co-op. There will…

2 months, 1 week ago

Wool Logs

It costs farmers more to shear sheep than they get for wool, as we haven’t scaled up uses for wool in Ireland. Now, in order to re-wet bogs and block…

2 months, 1 week ago

Keith Brennan

On Hawthorn Hill Farm in North Roscommon, Keith Brennan has been shearing his sheep.

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2 months, 1 week ago

The Sheep Show Podcast

The Sheep Show podcast is a weekly podcast both presenters are sheep farmers, but the twist is they are brother and sister, and the double twist is h…

2 months, 1 week ago

Countrywide Full Episode 18/07/2026

Countrywide Full Episode 18/07/2026

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Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann

Ahead of Comhaltas Ceolteori Eireann’s 75th anniversary, we had a couple of the island's best musicians in studio: Robert Harvey on Whistling and flu…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Heat Stress on Farms

We looked at challenges farmers are facing , dairy farmers in particular as they try to look after animals that were not designed for these temperatu…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Climate Adaptation

What does being well adapted to occasional blasts of this kind of heat look like? While simultaneously being adapted to increasing blasts of heavy ra…

2 months, 2 weeks ago