Tag Archives: RTE 2Fm

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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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, 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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Local Newspaper Week

By Ronan | Published: October 26, 2011

The inau­gural Local News­pa­per Week is upon us. It is a week which cel­e­brates local news­pa­pers and the impor­tant role they play right across Ire­land so there has never been a bet­ter time to go out and buy your local news­pa­per. Over 30 weekly paid for titles are par­tic­i­pat­ing in this event which has been […]

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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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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 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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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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