Épisodes

  • Carbury Bog

    Carbury Bog
    Mar 7 2026
    At Carbury bog in Kildare, a local community group has cracked the problem of simultaneously protecting nature while allowing people who can’t afford not to – to keep cutting turf to heat their homes. Philip meets Ciara Duggan, Chair of Carbury Bogs.
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    9 min
  • Rain Essay

    Rain Essay
    Mar 7 2026
    Janet Heeran in Cork on the many days of rain this year. Featuring the track ‘Light Rain Blues’ by Sam Amidon. (For copyright reasons the full track used in the background of this piece cannot be made available in the podcast)
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    4 min
  • Thinking like a Mountain

    Thinking like a Mountain
    Mar 7 2026
    Professor John Feehan, Geologist and Botanist, argues that the rewetting of bogs may prove to be a major missed opportunity for nature, and that we need to adjust our timeframes to think like mountains.
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    8 min
  • Artists and our Wetlands

    Artists and our Wetlands
    Mar 7 2026
    Della Kilroy meets artist Annie Holland on Abbeyleix Bog to hear about her work which is inspired by the landscape there. Annie is one of 19 artists identified by The Community Wetlands Forum as someone whose work encourages people to look afresh at their local bogs.
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    6 min
  • Lemanaghan Bog

    Lemanaghan Bog
    Mar 7 2026
    Lemanaghan Bog in Offaly, or Manchán’s bog, has been earmarked by Bord Na Mona and SSE Renewables as a site for turbines. Locals like Ciara Egan would prefer if it hadn’t. She tells Philip about the relationship the local people have with the land there.
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    8 min
  • Up in Smoke?

    Up in Smoke?
    Mar 7 2026
    26 years ago, a team of archaeologists followed in the wake of Bord Na Mona’s peat harvesting machinery to rescue artefacts revealed by the milling. It raises the possibility of bog bodies having being burned in our peat fired power stations.
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    5 min
  • Lazy Beds

    Lazy Beds
    Mar 7 2026
    Farming in peaty soils is challenging. But not so for horticulture. In Connemara Aongus O’Coistealbha has embraced the Lazy Beds growing system developed by our ancestors, which is anything but lazy as Lorna Siggins reports.
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    6 min
  • Countrywide Full Episode 07/03/2026

    Countrywide Full Episode 07/03/2026
    Mar 7 2026
    Countrywide Full Episode 07/03/2026
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    47 min