Countrywide Full Episode 08/08/26

Dublin Horse Show 2026

It's been one hundred years since Irish Army officers first jumped for their country, and now we are looking at how they’re marking the centenary at this week's Dublin Horse Show in the RDS. Suzanne Campbell reports.

Water Shortages

In 2018, a summer drought hit Ireland hard, and farmers were counting the cost of it for months afterwards. This year, it's happening all over again. July was the driest on record, so what does this mean for dairy farmers? Ella visits Malcolm Kidd, a young dairy farmer outside Bagenalstown to see how he's dealing with the drought.

Countrywide Full Episode 08/08/26

Countrywide Full Episode 08/08/26

Little Terns

The season is nearly at an end for Ireland's smallest and rarest seabirds, Little Terns, and they'll soon be off on their journey south back to Africa. As they nest on the ground, they're extremely vulnerable to disturbance from all of us. Della Kilroy went to Kilcoole beach to meet the conservationists working to protect the seabird species.

Offshore Wind Farms

Five new wind farms are waiting on planning approval in the Irish Sea and it appears the sites line up with some of the best fishing grounds on the east coast. It's no great surprise that fishermen are worried, both about losing space to work, and about what all those structures under the water might do to the marine environment they depend on.