Show overview
Mooney Goes Wild launched in 2025 and has put out 115 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 7 min and 15 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-IE-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 61 episodes already out so far this year. Published by RTÉ.
From the publisher
Derek Mooney and guests explore the natural world in all its forms. Listen live every Monday at 10pm on RTÉ Radio 1.
Latest Episodes
View all 115 episodesIn A Walled Garden In Meath
Remarkable Reefs
Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)
Swallows And Wrens
April 1st No Fools Day For Salmon Of Knowledge
Blue Tits, Cuckoos and Woodpeckers
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00
Mermaid's Purse Discovered By Schoolboy In Co. Kerry
Wild Dublin Art Exhibition At Rathmines Library
Counting Rooks
The Cork Crow Conundrum
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time
A Chorus Of French Frogs
Our Marvel-ous New Sig Tune!
Happy Birthday, Dr. Collins
Farmer Moth Monitoring Scheme
Make A Date For Dawn Chorus 2026: Sunday 3rd May
The dawn chorus, nature’s great global sunrise concert, returns for International Dawn Chorus Day on 3 May. Mooney Goes Wild will broadcast live from midnight to 7am, with Derek Mooney in RTÉ and Jim Wilson and Niall Hatch in Cobh, joined by contributors nationwide and listeners’ own birdsong recordings...
Terry Has A Tree-mendous Time At The National Botanic Gardens
The National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin are a free, year-round haven of global plant collections, including remarkable trees often explored on guided tours. For tonight’s programme, Terry Flanagan visits the Gardens to join guide Eoin O’Reilly, who shows him some of the site’s most spectacular arboreal highlights...
Trying To Save New Zealand’s Albatrosses From Extinction
Albatrosses, the world’s largest-winged seabirds, face severe declines, with up to 100,000 killed yearly by longline fisheries. UCC researcher Dr Jamie Darby tracked endangered Antipodean Albatrosses on the remote Antipodes Islands, revealing far higher mortality rates that could push the species toward extinction...
Pine Martens
Niall Hatch recently saw six dead Pine Martens while driving from Wicklow to Tipperary, highlighting how strongly the once-rare species has rebounded. He later spotted a live one near Loughlinstown, a rare record inside the M50, which particularly interests Éanna Ní Lamhna given past absence reports...