Category Archives: everyday

Medium-Sized Fly Invasion, Fairly Big Story

By Ronan | Published: May 15, 2012

A pile of regional news­pa­pers landed on my table this week for my slot on the Break­fast with Hec­tor Show on RTE2FM and I don’t think there’ll be as big a story this year as the fly infes­ta­tion which last week forced hun­dreds from their homes in the Tralee area. Mer­ci­ful hour, that is one […]

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A nice trophy for Brunnock’s Little Palace

By Ronan | Published: May 14, 2012

Some great news in the Meath Chron­i­cle this week con­cern­ing one of Ireland’s great­est singers, whose tro­phy cab­i­net will be bulging con­sid­er­ably this week. Kells native Michael Brun­nock, who has won in the Best Orig­i­nal Song cat­e­gory at this year’s David di Donatello awards cer­e­mony, which are essen­tially the Ital­ian equiv­a­lent of the Acad­emy Awards/Oscars. Now […]

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Medium-Sized Bucket, Fairly Heart-Warming story

By Ronan | Published: May 1, 2012

It’s the first of May, and we had one of the sto­ries of the year for my regional news­pa­per slot on Break­fast With Hec­tor on RTE2Fm. The heart-warming tale of a Cork­man and his trusty black bucket… Enniskeane man’s bucket sou­venir of papal visit The South­ern Star in Cork, one of Ireland’s best regional news­pa­pers, has […]

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Urban/Rural Divide: Myth or Reality?

By Ronan | Published: April 26, 2012

I’m on the Leviathan panel tonight for what promises to be a great night in Gal­way debat­ing the rural/urban divide. Is it a myth or a real­ity? I’ll be let­ting you know what I think later on! Author, Hot Press jour­nal­ist and hell­raiser, Olaf Tyaransen will be host­ing the leg­endary Leviathan polit­i­cal cabaret series when it […]

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Tubridy’s 2FM ‘Greet on the Street’ comes to Mullingar

By Ronan | Published: April 26, 2012

Ryan Tubridy was in Mullingar yes­ter­day (Wednes­day, April 25th) on the lat­est stop-off on his ‘Greet on the Street’ tour, a once-a-month jaunt around the coun­try where the show is broad­cast from a rural town. It’s a bril­liant way for a show to get out among its lis­ten­ers, and for its pre­sen­ter to show his […]

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The saddest story we’ve ever covered on Breakfast with Hector

By Ronan | Published: April 25, 2012

Tues­day morn­ing was spent in Gal­way for another fan­tas­tic morn­ing on ‘Break­fast With Hec­tor’ on RTE2FM. Medium-Sized Town Fairly Story had one of its sad­dest tales to tell. A week after the Laois Nation­al­ist spashed its front page with the news that a lost dog had returned home after four years on the hop, the […]

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The deer that thinks it’s a cow and other tall (but true) tales

By Ronan | Published: April 17, 2012

Another mad­cap week in the regional news­pa­pers of Ire­land, with some sto­ries catch­ing my eye that lit­er­ally touch every base in mod­ern Ire­land.  Every­thing from ani­mal wel­fare to farm hus­bandry, from tax affairs toaf­fairs of the heart, from drink to pot­holes. Yes, truly a reflec­tion on the state we’re in… So, for my ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big […]

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Get outta that garden — and other measures to deal with pests

By Ronan | Published: April 13, 2012

For the final day of Grow It Your­self Week on Break­fast with Hec­tor on RTE2fm with guest host Paddy McKenna, we delved into pos­si­bly the biggest chal­lenge fac­ing any gar­dener, whether their patch was a medium-sized gar­den, a fairly big one, or even just a win­dowsill: Yes, we’re talk­ing about pests. The tell tale trail of […]

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Gardening without a garden

By Ronan | Published: April 12, 2012

Al this week on Break­fast with Hec­tor on RTE2fm with guest host Paddy McKenna we have been giv­ing some valu­able gar­den­ing tips in asso­ci­a­tion with Grow It Your­self Ire­land and Wood­ies DIY. It’s Grow It Your­self week, and we’ve been hand­ing out tips to kid gar­den­ers, those with medium-sized to fairly-big gar­dens, so today it […]

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How does my garden grow?

By Ronan | Published: April 11, 2012

Very well thank you very much for (not) ask­ing. All this week I’m on Break­fast with Paddy on RTE2FM giv­ing some gar­den­ing tips as part of a superb com­pe­ti­tion by Grow It Your­self Ire­land (GIY), in asso­ci­a­tion with Wood­ies DIY. Tune in every day to hear my tip of the day, and together we can […]

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