Tag Archives: Medium-Sized Town Fairly Big Story

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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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 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 town, Irish dogshit capital

By Ronan | Published: November 15, 2011

My weekly regional news­pa­per review for RTE 2fm’s ‘Break­fast with Hec­tor’ show saw us revisit a story which got the Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story slot onto the front page of the Laois Nation­al­ist last year. Yes, the shit has hit the fan again in Mount­mel­lick as the town’s ongo­ing dog­gie doo prob­lem is scuttering […]

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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 St Patrick’s Parade Committee, Fairly Big Scandal

By Ronan | Published: October 11, 2011

Another pile of regional news­pa­pers, another week of sto­ries show­cas­ing the lighter side of Irish life for Break­fast With Hector’s pop­u­lar ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ slot. Every week we get to fit four or maybe five sto­ries into the slot, so often sto­ries slot into place quickly. This week was one of those weeks […]

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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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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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