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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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Has anything changed in 800 years?

By Ronan | Published: May 17, 2011

Queen Eliz­a­beth II began her first ever visit to Ire­land on Tues­day May 17th, and if she was to pop into a local newsagent as good as Mullingar’s Days Bazaar and browse the front pages of the regional news­pa­pers then she would have been delighted to learn that not much as changed since the Brits […]

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Medium-Sized Cow Dung, Fairly Big Bull’s Arse

By Ronan | Published: April 5, 2011

Review­ing the regional news­pa­pers for the ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ slot on RTE2FM’s Break­fast with Hec­tor this week I was struck by the awful load of old bull printed in the four cor­ners of the regional news­pa­per world. The impend­ing vis­its of Obama and the Queen, com­bined with the sud­den appear­ance on these shores of the […]

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Medium-Sized Lean To, Fairly Old Body

By Ronan | Published: March 1, 2011

A 12 hour Honda 50 cycle got me from Mullingar to Gal­way for ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story, on Break­fast with Hec­tor from the RTE 2FM stu­dios in Gal­way city on March 1st. I’m in train­ing for the big sum­mer meets on the trusty steed, and one day it will go faster than 10 kms […]

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Medium-Sized Animal, Fairly Big Panic

By Ronan | Published: February 2, 2011

It was an ani­mal spe­cial on RTE 2FM’s ‘Break­fast with Hec­tor’ on Tues­day Feb­ru­ary 1st, 2011, with sto­ries of ani­mals of the four-legged and two-legged mak­ing the head­lines for the regional news­pa­per round-up. We had run­away cat­tle, red squir­rels com­ing back from extinc­tion, dogs under lock and key in Cavan and then there was the […]

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Medium-Sized Town… Agus tá go leoir scealta inti

By Ronan | Published: January 18, 2011

On a morn­ing where foot­balling greed came firmly into focus with out­ra­geous wage demands by cer­tain Irish foot­ballers, how refresh­ing to read another great Done­gal Demo­c­rat inter­view with ris­ing Ever­ton star Sea­mus Coleman. The Done­gal news­pa­per has been fea­tur­ing reg­u­lar updates on Coleman’s progress on the blue side of Liv­er­pool, and it seems Cole­man is always […]

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First Medium-Sized Town… of the year

By Ronan | Published: January 13, 2011

Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story — Break­fast With Hec­tor, RTE 2FM, Tues­day Jan­u­ary 11th The first ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ of the year on Break­fast with Hec­tor on RTE 2fm on Tues­day Jan­u­ary 11th proved to be a bit tricky. Not only were the regional news­pa­pers STILL full of pic­tures from the 2010/2011 Big Freeze, […]

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