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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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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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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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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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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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