Tag Archives: Irish news

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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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 […]

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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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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 Big Story — A Kerry special!

By Ronan | Published: December 6, 2011

There are many weeks when the whole Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story slot on Break­fast with Hec­tor on RTE2FM could come from Kerry. Its regional news­pa­pers are packed full of quirky coun­try news and fea­tures that cel­e­brate coun­try life in all its glory. And this week was no dif­fer­ent, with Kerry lead­ing the way with […]

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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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