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September 3, 1967: The Black & Amber Tide Turns - Part 4
Part 4 of 4.Former Kilkenny captain and five-time All-Ireland senior hurling winner with the Cats, Michael Fennelly takes a walk back through one of the biggest games ...
September 3, 1967: The Black & Amber Tide Turns - Part 3
Part 3 of 4.Former Kilkenny captain and five-time All-Ireland senior hurling winner with the Cats, Michael Fennelly takes a walk back through one of the biggest game i...
September 3, 1967: The Black & Amber Tide Turns - Part 2
Part 2 of 4.Former Kilkenny captain and five-time All-Ireland senior hurling winner with the Cats, Michael Fennelly takes a walk back through one of the biggest games ...
September 3, 1967: The Black & Amber Tide Turns - Part 1
In this first part of a four-part series, we'll hear from former Kilkenny GAA chairman Ned Quinn, hurlers Eddie Keher, Jim Treacy, and Tom Walsh along with sports writ...
Episode 20 - Trees as the Route to Happiness Whether its Walking or Wood Turning
This is the last programme in the series, and it features ways in which we get joy out of Trees. To this end Monica met wood-turner Liam Kirwan who takes great pleasu...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 19 - Community Engagement and Wellness in Woodlands with the Acorn Project
The Acorn Project is a community engagement project in Kilkenny which aims to build connection with nature through developing workshops that get people out into the wo...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 18 - Exploring Engineered Wood Products in a Visit to Smartply
OSB is an example of an engineered wood product. And what is OSB- Orientated Strand Board? Well, have a listen to find out. In this programme Monica meets Neil Foot...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 17 - Farm Forestry from an IFA Perspective
Andrew O'Carroll is Kilkenny's Representative on the National IFA Farm Forestry Committee and Monica meets him and Michael Somers, Forestry Advisor with Teagasc and re...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 16 - Recreation, Research & Conservation at John F Kennedy Arboretum
At the John F Kennedy Arboretum in New Ross Co Wexford there is a big collection of trees from all over the world. These trees are nice to look at and the arboretum i...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 15 - Adding Value to Fallen Hardwoods at Lisnavagh House
This week Monica visits Lisnavagh House in Rathvilly Co Carlow to meet William Bunbury. He has come up with ways to add value to the hardwood trees that have fallen o...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 14 - Trees and the Castlecomer Discovery Park
In this programme Monica takes a visit to the Castlecomer Discovery Park to explore the role of Trees in supporting our mental health and wellbeing.
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 13 - Tree Research in Teagasc
In this programme, recorded at Oak Park research centre in Carlow, Frances McHugh, Forestry Advisor and Ian Short, Dheeraj Rathore and Oliver Sheridan, research scient...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 12 - Agroforestry: The Answer to a lot of Issues
Towards the end of 2021 there was a farm walk where interested parties learned about Agroforestry - a system of combining trees and grass on the same plot of land and ...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 11 - Christmas Tree Life
Between pruning and debudding Christmas trees demand a lot of care during their ten years of growing. Michael O'Gorman of Celtic Christmas Trees, Kilkenny gives us an...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 10 - Ballintemple Tree Nursery
This week Monica visits Coillte's Ballintemple Tree Nursery just outside Ardattin Co Carlow. There they process seeds and rear trees from seed before being sent out t...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust -Episode 9 - The Ash Tree, where there is life there's hope
In this programme hear about ash die back disease and the hope that resistant trees, growing in a wood in Kilkenny, can save the day... The loss of ash is too big to ...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 8 - Whiskey Barrels, a Potential new Industry for Irish Oak Trees
The presence of the Oak Tree in our life does not and should not depend on its economic value. However a new use for its wood could be emerging in the form of staves ...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust Episode 7 - Trees and Water
Trees and Water is the topic of this episode in Trees: From Seed to Sawdust
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 6 - To Plant or Not to Plant
'I have never been sorry that I planted trees'. So says one farmer in the 6th programme in Trees: From Seed to Sawdust. To plant or not to plant? Plant - it's good fo...
Trees: From Seed to Sawdust - Episode 5: A Wood Chip Perspective
This programme is recorded at the Irish Wood Producer's Wood Chip Depot in New Ross and explores the role of wood chip from an environmental and economic perspective.