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Medium-Sized House, Fairly Big Garden

By Ronan | Published: April 10, 2012

Break­fast With Hec­tor became Break­fast With Paddy this week on RTE2FM, with Hec­tor and the team bar me on hol­i­days. Paddy McKenna was stand­ing in, so for me I *finally* got the chance to work with him, and what a crack­ing DJ he is too. A bril­liant day was had as he eased the country […]

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Have you heard the one about the greyhound who kept running?

By Ronan | Published: April 3, 2012

IT sounds like a Hal Roche joke, but it is the big story in Lim­er­ick this week as a grey­hound who had just won a race kept going, mak­ing a break for the bright lights of Lim­er­ick City like. The Lim­er­ick Leader is full of these sto­ries this week, as its superb anniver­sary sup­ple­ment ‘All Our […]

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What class of vehicle is this?

By Ronan | Published: March 27, 2012

Look at this vehi­cle, ain’t it so cute? Appar­ently, it’s the future. Accord­ing to the Laois Nation­al­ist news­pa­per this dinky lit­tle thing is the first-ever elec­tri­cal util­ity vehi­cle in Ire­land. Laois County Coun­cil have just taken deliv­ery of the Alkè Elec­tric Util­ity Vehi­cle, and it will mainly be used for rub­bish col­lec­tion from street bins in […]

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What next? The Bono flyover?

By Ronan | Published: March 27, 2012

A busy week in the regional news­pa­pers, meant a long week­end pour­ing over the regional news­pa­pers in the sun whilst the lawn grew around me as I researched and wrote the Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story slot for the Break­fast with Hec­tor Show on RTE 2FM. There were plenty of sto­ries try­ing to get out of […]

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MSTFBS –If Rome was built in a day we would have used the same contractor…

By Ronan | Published: March 20, 2012

Here are some of the best sto­ries from this and last weeks regional news­pa­pers of Ire­land as dis­cussed, dis­sected and laughed at on RTE 2FM’s ‘Break­fast with Hec­tor’ this morn­ing for ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’, Tues­day March 20th. Enjoy! ——– End in sight for Wick­low Pooper Scooper dis­pute Accord­ing to the Wick­low Peo­ple there may […]

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Woman calls 999 to complain about her chips

By Ronan | Published: March 13, 2012

I think no intro­duc­tion of any kind is needed to sum­ma­rize my weekly trawl through the regional news­pa­pers of Ire­land for RTE 2FM this week. The head­line below is one of the rea­sons why I love them so much… Woman ‘rang 999 to com­plain about chips’ A 21-YEAR-OLD woman described as “bold as brass” by Judge Kevin Kil­rane rang […]

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Save Ireland’s Town Councils!

By Ronan | Published: March 6, 2012

It is widely expected that a forth­com­ing White Paper on Local Gov­ern­ment Reform will abol­ish close to 80 town coun­cils which meet monthly in dark­ened coun­cil cham­bers across the land to dis­cuss the real issues fac­ing the Irish pub­lic.  Clos­ing them will allegedly cut tens of mil­lions of euro from the local gov­ern­ment bill, but […]

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Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Loud Hum

By Ronan | Published: March 6, 2012

Below is a cor­nu­copia of delights from a selec­tion of our very finest regional news­pa­pers which were this week full of pic­tures from retire­ment par­ties of dis­tin­guished civil ser­vants, leav­ing the ranks too young and leav­ing the coun­try, er, fucked. In between these tear-jerking pho­tos of smil­ing men and women of to col­lect their large […]

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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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