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Ear to the Ground

Season 25 2017 - 2018

  • 2017-11-02T20:30:00Z on RTÉ One
  • 25m
  • 6h 15m (15 episodes)
  • Ireland
  • English
  • Documentary
Ear to the Ground is a weekly television programme broadcast on Ireland's RTÉ One. It consists of reports about rural, countryside and environmental issues.

15 episodes

Season Premiere

2017-11-02T20:30:00Z

25x01 Episode 1

Season Premiere

25x01 Episode 1

  • 2017-11-02T20:30:00Z25m

To mark the 25th series, Ear to the Ground revisits three stories from its first episode back in 1993.

2017-11-09T20:30:00Z

25x02 Episode 2

25x02 Episode 2

  • 2017-11-09T20:30:00Z25m

The team examine an invasive species on the banks of the River Nore and meet a Cork dairy farmer who now owns an orchard with 21,000 trees.

2017-11-23T20:30:00Z

25x03 Episode 3

25x03 Episode 3

  • 2017-11-23T20:30:00Z25m

The team visits a farm in Kilkenny which has hired milkers from the Farm Relief Scheme and check out restoration work undertaken at Coolattin Wood.

2017-11-30T20:30:00Z

25x04 Episode 4

25x04 Episode 4

  • 2017-11-30T20:30:00Z25m

Helen Carroll visits the fishing communities of Howth in Co Dublin and Dunmore East in Co Waterford to learn about the impact of Brexit.

2017-12-07T20:30:00Z

25x05 Episode 5

25x05 Episode 5

  • 2017-12-07T20:30:00Z25m

Darragh McCullough goes to Aherla in Co Cork to chat to 2017 Farmer of the Year Peter Hynes and his family.

2017-12-14T20:30:00Z

25x06 Episode 6

25x06 Episode 6

  • 2017-12-14T20:30:00Z25m

Helen is in Co Wexford to meet Michael Walsh to learn about his salmon smoking business.

2017-12-21T20:30:00Z

25x07 Episode 7

25x07 Episode 7

  • 2017-12-21T20:30:00Z25m

The team visit Kildorrery in Co Cork, a rural village kept alive by the tenacity of the local community.

2018-01-04T20:30:00Z

25x08 Episode 8

25x08 Episode 8

  • 2018-01-04T20:30:00Z25m

Darragh McCullough sees how a Westmeath family farm has changed since a frightening health scare. Ella McSweeney meets Donegal men saving a rare Irish cattle breed from extinction.

2018-01-11T20:30:00Z

25x09 Episode 9

25x09 Episode 9

  • 2018-01-11T20:30:00Z25m

Topical farming and environmental show. Helen meets a Co Laois family starting up a whole new porridge making business.

2018-01-18T20:30:00Z

25x10 Episode 10

25x10 Episode 10

  • 2018-01-18T20:30:00Z25m

Ella McSweeney meets one of the longest living transplant recipients in Ireland and his donor brother and Darragh McCullough visits a herb farm in Co. Meath that has grown from two rented acres to a multi-million-euro business.

2018-01-25T20:30:00Z

25x11 Episode 11

25x11 Episode 11

  • 2018-01-25T20:30:00Z25m

Darragh MCullough is in Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, to find out how farmer Clive Williamson manages to balance his agricultural work with volunteering for mountain rescue.

2018-02-01T20:30:00Z

25x12 Episode 12

25x12 Episode 12

  • 2018-02-01T20:30:00Z25m

This week Irish model Thalia Heffernan investigates the growth of veganism in Ireland, we visit Carraig Dúlra a social enterprise that provides education related to sustainable living, and meet a 22-year-old who chose farming over a Pharmacy degree.

2018-02-08T20:30:00Z

25x13 Episode 13

25x13 Episode 13

  • 2018-02-08T20:30:00Z25m

Darragh McCullough meets some of the people who discovered horse carcasses in fields in Knocklofty, just outside Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

2018-02-15T20:30:00Z

25x14 Episode 14

25x14 Episode 14

  • 2018-02-15T20:30:00Z25m

Helen Carroll went to Co Offaly to see the effect of consistent floodings have had on Paddy Towey’s farm in Shannon Harbour.

2018-02-22T20:30:00Z

25x15 Episode 15

25x15 Episode 15

  • 2018-02-22T20:30:00Z25m

Helen Carroll reports on attacks on sheep in Lismacaffry, Neil Crossan meets a Co Donegal worm farmer, and Ella McSweeney investigates the demand for organic cattle feed.

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