Countrywide Full Episode 14.11.2026

Countrywide Full Episode 14.11.2026

Washington Street

Della Kilroy talked to restauranteurs about why so many of them congregated around Washington Street, including Praveen Madire from Andhra Bhavan restaurant.

Goldie

Cork community garden play a large role in fuelling Cork's buzzy restaurant scene. Chef Aishling Moore from Goldie has a well earned reputation for inventive and sustainable at the same time.

The Future of Butchery

The rise of unhealthy food environment has been mirrored by  slide in the number of trained food professionals. One of the most critical now is butchers. Suzanne Campbell visits butcher Eoin O'Mahony in the English market to get a sense of how butchery is changing.

Glen Resource Center

In North Cork, Barry Hickey runs a community garden in the Glen Resource Center has one scheme tackling food deserts. He has started selling the produce of that garden, and donate packaged goods, in a community blighted by food poverty.

Cork Healthy Cities

Cork officials in Council and other agencies o government have seen how community gardens and other schemes were placing society's hands on the scales of the local food system and tipping away from big food and junk food. Marion O'Reilly from HSE Slaintecare asked the community - are there other th…

Derry Desmond

In Togher, south of Cork City, lies an impressive community garden in a hares corner of the park. Philip has a conversation with Derry Desmond, a man who was getting much more out of that garden than jut the food that was growing in it.

Our Farm at Bushy Park

In Watergrasshill, just a few miles outside the city, Bushy Park Farm has converted from a small dairy operation to a community garden. John Murphy borrowed the idea from a Dutch cooperative scheme that is feeding thousands, and he too has big ambitions.

CountryWide - 7 November 2026

Philip Boucher-Hayes and the CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns & villages across the country.

Minister Martin Heydon

However much smaller the eventual CAP budget ends up being, who gets what proportion of it is entirely in the gift of the Minister for Agriculture. We ask Martin Heydon what guarantees he can give farmers, and we speak to him about the stalled cuts in farming emissions.