Monthly Archives: February 2012

You may take our mink, but you’ll never take our freedom!

By Ronan | Published: February 28, 2012

Once again, a Breakfast with Hector crusade has hit the papers. Having reached Kerry after their escape from a Donegal farm, the killer mink of Ireland may have met their match — Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan and a suitcase full of money! Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story on RTE2fm was the first, er, section of […]

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Medium-Sized Ghostly Apparition, Fairly Big Story

By Ronan | Published: February 21, 2012

UFO’s, ghosts, epidemic levels of dog dirt, frogs on the hop because it’s leap year, potholes for astronauts and ostriches and the most romantic town in Kerry… all the action is all over the country so what a thrill to be able to uncover the real Ireland for MSTFBS over the past week. The weekly […]

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The dogshit hits the fan in a medium-sized town

By Ronan | Published: February 14, 2012

I don’t think I have ever completed a weekly trawl through the regional newspapers of Ireland without seeing at least one doggy doo story. And if it’s not dogshit coming out of the mouths of crafty local politicians, its coming out all over the medium-sized towns of Ireland. One of the first big stories from […]

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Renting an army barracks now cheaper than owning one

By Ronan | Published: February 9, 2012

An interesting series of adverts appeared in regional newspapers in Westmeath and Cavan this week. The Dept of Defence are currently looking to rent space to train the Army Reserve in Mullingar and Cavan town. Nothing unusual there you might say, sure aren’t they both decent areas to have an army reserve ready and waiting? […]

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Semple Stadium beats anything in Paris…

By Ronan | Published: February 9, 2012

For Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story on RTE2FM’s Breakfast with Hector show this week we re-iterated what everybody in Tipperary already knows, that there is nowhere in the world quite as beautiful as Semple Stadium in Thurles. The GAA theatre of dreams has a pedigree like no other stadium in Ireland, having hosted everyone from […]

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Here’s a couple of words I never thought I’d type…

By Ronan | Published: February 9, 2012

Roy Keane Talking Sense. There, I’ve said it* *I’ll still never forgive him for Saipan mind you…

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Monthly Archives: February 2012

You may take our mink, but you’ll never take our freedom!

Medium-Sized Ghostly Apparition, Fairly Big Story

The dogshit hits the fan in a medium-sized town

Renting an army barracks now cheaper than owning one

Semple Stadium beats anything in Paris…

Here’s a couple of words I never thought I’d type…

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