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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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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 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 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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Medium-Sized Anniversary, Fairly Big Birthday

By Ronan | Published: October 5, 2011

RTE 2fm’s Break­fast with Hec­tor cel­e­brated it’s first birth­day on Tues­day Octo­ber 4th 2011 and luck­ily for me I was in the stu­dio in Gal­way to help them cel­e­brate. I’ve been con­tribut­ing to the show for a lit­tle less than that, about ten months, and believe you me it’s an absolute joy to be able […]

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Medium-Sized Bottle of Urine, Fairly Chaype Drinks…

By Ronan | Published: September 27, 2011

It’s a good thing Rihanna chose not to frolic about in the nip in a Cork field this week as the Cork Inde­pen­dent fea­tured an alarm­ing story about what goes on in the fields of Glyn­town. As the pop star cavorted with some County Down corn, res­i­dents in the Cork parish were left per­plexed by a what […]

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Back from a break — Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story returns to 2fm

By Ronan | Published: September 20, 2011

After two weeks of doing noth­ing aside from soak­ing up some Vit­a­min Sun­shine in rural Spain with some added rural read­ing (Belinda McKeon’s excel­lent debut novel ‘Solace’ and a pile of John McGa­h­ern includ­ing his mas­ter­ful ‘High Ground’ col­lec­tion) it was back to the read­ing of the rural news­pa­pers for RTE2FM’s Break­fast with Hec­tor show […]

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Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story — RTE2FM July 26th

By Ronan | Published: July 26, 2011

After a two-week break I was back on RTE 2fm this week for the weekly ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ slot on Break­fast with Hec­tor. Refreshed and rar­ing to go with over 20 regional news­pa­pers at the ready, it was bumper week for sto­ries, par­tic­u­larly from the south of the coun­try. There were tales of […]

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Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story — July 4

By Ronan | Published: July 5, 2011

No whoo-dee-doo Amer­i­can non­sense to cel­e­brate the 4th of July — just plain old Irish com­mon­sense and non­sense from the regional news­pa­pers to mark the first Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story of July on RTE 2 FM’s Break­fast with Hec­tor. We could have filled about an hour of radio with sto­ries from the country’s regional news­pa­pers this […]

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