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Voices, views, stories, news and engaging chat from Northern Ireland’s rural community.

Voices, views, stories, news and chat from Northern Ireland’s rural community, hosted by Nicola Weir. Including essential livestock and weather reports. 

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Countryside: Ballyboley Dexters

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30/06/2024

Ballyboley Dexters

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Pastures new for Ballyboley Dexters in County Down. Are prawn shells the answer to Lough Neagh pollution? And the case of the missing County Londonderry snake called Mango.

Presenter, Nicola Weir, travels to Ballyboley farm between Groomsport and Donaghadee to help farmer, Stephen Alexander, to move the 100 head native Irish breed herd to pastures new and find out how the family is farming with nature. Are prawn shells the answer to pollution in Lough Neagh? Harry Wick, The Chief Executive of the Fish Producers' Organisation, is hoping the by product we produce here from fishing will clean water and generate jobs. Have you heard the case of the missing snake called Mango? Travis Vilgoen and his mum Fiona lost the family’s cornsnake in April – and it turned up week’s later at Travis’s school in County Londonderry! Countryside reporter, Laura O’Neill, inspects what’s on offer at the Maritime Festival in Derry and did Nicola manage to grow wasabi in Ballymena? Well Tandragee wasabi farmer, Sean Kitson, will be giving her marks out of 10 – spoiler, he had to bring his own in!



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