Tag Archives: Irish news

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 […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

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 […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment

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 […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The dogshit hits the fan in a medium-sized town

By Ronan | Published: February 14, 2012

I don’t think I have ever com­pleted a weekly trawl through the regional news­pa­pers of Ire­land with­out see­ing at least one doggy doo story. And if it’s not dogshit com­ing out of the mouths of crafty local politi­cians, its com­ing out all over the medium-sized towns of Ire­land. One of the first big sto­ries from […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 […]

Posted in everyday | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment