Author Archives: Ronan

Medium-Sized Superloo, Fairly Big Bill

By Ronan | Published: January 30, 2012

After a short break, Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story was back on ‘Break­fast with Hec­tor’ on RTE 2Fm last week. Tues­day morn­ings just would not be the same with­out the best of the regional news­pa­pers so it was great to be back on air. And thank you to all the lis­ten­ers for their best wishes […]

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Can goats swim? And other stories…

By Ronan | Published: December 13, 2011

Can goats swim? It’s a ques­tion that many a per­son has asked me over the years, and thanks to Edwin McGreal in the Mayo News we finally have the answer. Goats can swim – no kid­ding The ques­tion of goats swim­ming was some­thing a lot of onlook­ers were pon­der­ing at the N5 at Chancery near Ballyvary […]

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Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story — A Kerry special!

By Ronan | Published: December 6, 2011

There are many weeks when the whole Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story slot on Break­fast with Hec­tor on RTE2FM could come from Kerry. Its regional news­pa­pers are packed full of quirky coun­try news and fea­tures that cel­e­brate coun­try life in all its glory. And this week was no dif­fer­ent, with Kerry lead­ing the way with […]

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Medium-sized town, fairly big crime spree on court day…

By Ronan | Published: November 29, 2011

It was another bumper week in the Courts in the regional news­pa­pers of Ire­land this week. Per­haps the judges, sens­ing the pres­ence of jour­nal­ists keen for copy in the wake of the embar­rass­ing ref­er­en­dum on pay, have upped their game a bit? Any­how, we chose to give these great men a break on the Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big […]

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Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Continental Chimneys

By Ronan | Published: November 23, 2011

‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ on RTE2FM’s ‘Break­fast with Hec­tor’ cel­e­brated a mile­stone on the show on Tues­day Novem­ber 22nd. It was our 40th out­ing for the slot and the response from lsten­ers was as good as ever. Please keep texts com­ing to 51552 when the show is on air (7am — 9am Mon — […]

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Medium-sized town, Irish dogshit capital

By Ronan | Published: November 15, 2011

My weekly regional news­pa­per review for RTE 2fm’s ‘Break­fast with Hec­tor’ show saw us revisit a story which got the Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story slot onto the front page of the Laois Nation­al­ist last year. Yes, the shit has hit the fan again in Mount­mel­lick as the town’s ongo­ing dog­gie doo prob­lem is scuttering […]

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Medium-Sized JCB, Fairly Big Crowd…

By Ronan | Published: November 8, 2011

2,500 peo­ple watch JCB exca­va­tion The fol­low­ing para­graph is an exam­ple of just why I love regional news­pa­pers so much. It’s the open­ing lines of one of the main sto­ries in this week’s Lim­er­ick Leader: “In the region of 2,500 peo­ple turned up at a field in County Lim­er­ick at the week­end to watch a […]

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Medium-Sized Cow Up a Tree, Fairly Big Stink

By Ronan | Published: November 1, 2011

A mad busy week for the regional news­pa­pers, and as it was Local News­pa­per Week one got the opin­ion that the par­tic­i­pat­ing news­pa­pers were really mak­ing an effort to impress read­ers old and (hope­fully) new. The 30 papers that did were packed to the gills with news and, sadly, Hal­loween cliche after Hal­loween cliche. I […]

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Local Newspaper Week

By Ronan | Published: October 26, 2011

The inau­gural Local News­pa­per Week is upon us. It is a week which cel­e­brates local news­pa­pers and the impor­tant role they play right across Ire­land so there has never been a bet­ter time to go out and buy your local news­pa­per. Over 30 weekly paid for titles are par­tic­i­pat­ing in this event which has been […]

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Medium-Sized Court Case, Fairly Big Story

By Ronan | Published: October 25, 2011

With Local News­pa­per Week being cel­e­brated in all 32 coun­ties of Ire­land this week, my ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ slot on RTE 2FM’s Break­fast With Hec­tor fea­tured a story which demon­strates first hand the power of a local news­pa­per. The story con­cerned a court case from the Fer­managh Her­ald. Noth­ing unusual (or major) there […]

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