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Countrywide John Cooke presents Countrywide this week.
Sunday with Miriam Miriam O’Callaghan presents a live stimulating mix of lifestyle, music, human interest and great interviews, the perfect soundtrack to your Sunday morning.
HOW’S YOUR DRIVING? Can any of us honestly say we have never broken a speed limit?  Does 58 KM/PH in a 50-zone ring any bells?  Well in this episode of ‘How’s Your Driving’, our test drivers will find out how different speeds affect their capacity to control or stop a car. We witness how an increase in speed has disastrous effects on Aoife and Finn’s braking abilities and it’s not just the track that Adam and Niamh are hitting in their slalom speed test.  Simon also discovers how our driving skills and roads rate internationally.
ECO EYE Dr Lara Dungan explores the need to reduce our transport emissions, and what trading the petrol car for electric innovation, public transit, and other transport options could look like in Ireland.
Iris Aniar Live from the Galway and Meath Regional Finals of the Údarás na Gaeltachta Company Programme.
EAR TO THE GROUND This week Helen is in Co.Westmeath to find out why one sheep farmer has lost €10,000 over the last 8 weeks, Darragh visits a man growing worms in Co.Donegal and Ella McSweeney is in Kinsale to ask what vision the government has when it comes to developing an organic market for domestic and export?
SCHOOL LIFE Second and final part of this observational documentary following a year in the lives of two inspirational teachers in the only primary-age boarding school in Ireland.
Countrywide Presented by John Cooke.
The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited: Fr. Brian D’Arcy In a return to a 1996 interview with Joe Jackson, we hear Father Brian D’Arcy reveal for the first time that he was sexually abused.
CRIMECALL Sharon Ní Bheoláin presents reconstructions, CCTV footage and live studio appeals for information from the public, to help with Garda investigations.