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Countrywide Full Episode 31/01/2026

Countrywide Full Episode 31/01/2026

Safety around farm machinery

40% of workplace fatalities happen on farms. Half of those involve machinery. Suzanne Campbell accompanies a HSA inspector doing a farm safety audit.

Tractor collector Kieran Geoghegan

The 91-year old farmer from Westmeath still gets out on his Massey Ferguson 165 every day to do jobs around the yard.

Seamus O’Rourke: Leaning On Gates

An excerpt from Seamus’s memoir Leaning On Gates about what “innovating” with tractors in the eighties.

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

In the 18th century, the father of the author Maria Edgeworth from Longford was the inventor of many agri-mechanical innovations still in use today.