Ear to the Ground

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  • Premiered: Jan 1993
  • Episodes: 114
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  • Running
  • RTÉ
  • Tuesday at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 24
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Episode 1
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Air date
Oct 27, 2016
Topics covered in this first episode include rural resettlement, the plight of tillage farmers, pumpkins and a dig at the Hill of Ward.
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Episode 2
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Air date
Nov 03, 2016
The team meet a Westmeath mushroom farmer who fears for his family business after Brexit.
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Episode 3
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Air date
Nov 10, 2016
Helen Carroll visits Ireland's only nettle farm in Monamolin, Co Wexford, and Ella McSweeney learns how an organic farm can be sustainable and profitable.
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Episode 4
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Air date
Nov 17, 2016
The team meet a Kilkenny man who turned his life around after an horrific farm accident, and encounter a Derry Bat Rescuer.
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Episode 5
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Air date
Nov 24, 2016
A two thousand mile harvest, a close look at climate change and a taste of Tipperary apples all feature on this programme.
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Episode 6
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Air date
Dec 01, 2016
Topical farming and environmental show. Entertainer Brendan Grace takes a step down memory lane and the team meet the people behind a village dairy in Kildare.
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Episode 7
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Dec 08, 2016
The team see how My Lovely Horse Rescue's two farms in Co Kildare rehabilitate and re-home abandoned and abused animals.
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Episode 8
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Air date
Dec 15, 2016
Topical farming and environmental show. The team meet the Leitrim native who has been driving a horse carriage on the streets of New York for over 30 years.
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Episode 9
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Air date
Jan 03, 2017
Ella McSweeney visits The Lost Valley in Mayo - a place so remote that after the Great Famine, the land remained untouched by human hand.
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Episode 10
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Air date
Jan 10, 2017
Topical farming and environmental show. Includes a visit to the Future Pigs farm in Kildare to see a biodigester at work, and a look at toadlets on their journey from Fota to Kerry.
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Episode 11
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Air date
Jan 17, 2017
Helen Carroll meets IFA women looking for more influence in the male dominated organisation.
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Episode 12
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Air date
Jan 24, 2017
Ella meets 98-year-old sheep dog trainer Dan Moran, and sets up a competition between his Border Collie and a 2,000 drone.
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Episode 13
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Air date
Jan 31, 2017
Ear to the Ground, RTÉ's longest running factual series offers a fresh, new look at how rural Ireland is changing.
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Episode 14
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Air date
Feb 07, 2017
Helen Carroll visits Bull Island to count the migrating wildfowl and watch for signs of the latest bird flu virus H5N8. Darragh learns about the latest Agri Environmental scheme GLAS.
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Episode 15
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Air date
Feb 14, 2017
The team asks if it is unrealistic for women to run a farm and explore a 3,000-year-old road on a bog in Co Westmeath.
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Episode 16
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Air date
Feb 21, 2017
Helen Carroll reports from the Louth/Monaghan border, where custom officers search for drivers using green diesel.
24x17 Season finale
Episode 17
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Air date
Feb 28, 2017
Helen Carroll travels to a farm owned by Niall Walsh in Laois, where small changes have had a positive impact on his work-life balance.

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