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The RNLI marks 200 years of the lifeboat service shortly, and Lorna Siggins visits one of the oldest west coast stations on the Aran islands all-weather lifeboat.

Countrywide Full 24/02/24

We pay a visit to north Cork to look at the Duhallow Farming For Blue Dot Catchments Project. We are also joined in studio by Eddie Burgess, River Catchment specialist in Teagasc.

We are joined by former international rugby referee Nigel Owens, nowadays a Hereford farmer, to tell us what is at the heart of the issue impacting Welsh farmers. And of course, we ask him what his predictions are for the game in Lansdowne Road later...

On the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, we visit a refugee couple in the thick of calving outside Trim.

Countrywide went to Katherine O'Leary's family farm near Blarney.

Countrywide Full 17/02/24

This spring, Hannah and grandmother Catherine are expecting dairy calves for the first time.

We speak to two farmers who are busy with calving.

With less than 100 breeding pairs left, extinction may be just 25 years away.

In Turlough Park, the National Museum of Country Life outside Castlebar in County Mayo, there is a new exhibition called The Murmur of Bees which opened to the public this week. Meanwhile down i mBaile Bhuirne i gContae Corcaigh, they are celebrating St Gobnait, patron saint of beekeepers with a festival.

Countrywide Full 10/02/24