Tag Archives: #mstfbs

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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Medium-Sized Court Case, Fairly Big Story

By Ronan | Published: October 25, 2011

With Local News­pa­per Week being cel­e­brated in all 32 coun­ties of Ire­land this week, my ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ slot on RTE 2FM’s Break­fast With Hec­tor fea­tured a story which demon­strates first hand the power of a local news­pa­per. The story con­cerned a court case from the Fer­managh Her­ald. Noth­ing unusual (or major) there […]

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Medium-Sized Kitten, Fairly Big Rescue

By Ronan | Published: August 2, 2011

My weekly ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ slot for Break­fast with Hec­tor on RTE 2FM was a game of cat and mouse this week. With silly sea­son well and truly upon the regional news­pa­pers of Ire­land, there were few men­tions of politi­cians, pot­holes and the promised land of the All-Ireland Foot­ball or Hurl­ing Cham­pi­onships, aside, […]

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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 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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