A goose was Ireland’s traditional Christmas bird; this week I headed to Darina Allen in Ballymaloe #Cork to learn more on their history, scarity and learn how to cook one. All on Countrywide on @rteradio1.bsky.social
tomorrow #irishfood 🍴🎄

#wicklow today. At least the monsoon-like rain has stopped for few hours. This is a barely field harvested in September, with crop coming up again in the warm temperatures

We really need to win this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 #coybig

#Rye is the grain of the moment with 1000 hectares more planted this year than in 2024. I visit Dunsany Farm and Mill in #Louth to talk about growing rye, and McNallys farm shop to eat their gorgeous #rye foods. On CountryWide @rteradio1.bsky.social tomorrow morning 🌾

Ireland has too many deer, so why don’t we eat more #venison? This and other aspects of our new deer management strategy will be explored in a panel discussion I’m chairing in the FRS tent at the National Ploughing Championships at 11.30am #ploughing2025

Beautiful meal on the terrace of The Unicorn #Dublin. Beautiful Irish Scallops 👌🏻👌🏻

Any restaurant recommendations for #LaRochelle 🙏🏻 🇫🇷🍴

Tomorrow on Countrywide on RTE Radio I report from New Leaf Urban farm #Limerick. Using #KoreanNaturalFarming methods, Kevin Wallace grows award-winning salad leaves and veg which is sold to Aware Manor and also the local Spar ✨🌱

Delighted to be at the launch of a new BA in Sustainable Butchery and Gastronomy at MTU #Cork. In the same way sommeliers champion wine, ambassadors in butchery can shout about how great #Irishbeef is.
Not surprisingly Pat Whelan of James Whelan Butchers played a big part in this 👏🏻✨

When the sun is finally evident, this person finally decides to move off the sofa and on to the floor 🙄

The tractors in #Dublin tractor protests are definitely less fancy €€€ #London #JohnDeere

Urgent! Anyone got a 8+ KVA generator near Knock or Claremorris #Mayo they could lend to for Velvet Cloud for their #sheep
#irishfarming

After our huge eucalyptus came down in storm Daragh, hoping nothing can top that 🙄 #praying #stormeowyn

When your neighbours drop in the good stuff ❤️✨ #venison #wicklow 🦌

When you’ve torn up your bed and have to pretend to be guilty

Glad to see this lot gone. In 2019 they tried to get me on a food press trip to Israel. I pointed out they’d held me at the border last time I traveled through Israel. And promoting apartheid is not my thing. But other Irish went. All these regimes eventually fall and this one will too. Help it fall

Thanks so much Tykillen Farm for the beautiful beeswax and honey gifts! Honey with this quality is exceptional! They also produce great horses and lamb on the farm #Wexford 🐝🐴🐑

Very wet conditions still today in #Wicklow. Any good #equestrian accounts on here? 🐴

Our four new hens arrived from an indoor barn two days ago. We never bring hens in normally but they would not go in their house and feathers were freezing