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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 26^th

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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Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story — July 4

By Ronan | Published: July 5, 2011

No whoo-dee-doo American nonsense to celebrate the 4^th of July — just plain old Irish commonsense and nonsense from the regional newspapers to mark the first Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story of July on RTE 2 FM’s Breakfast with Hector. We could have filled about an hour of radio with stories from the country’s regional newspapers this […]

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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 17^th, 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 Cow Dung, Fairly Big Bull’s Arse

By Ronan | Published: April 5, 2011

Reviewing the regional newspapers for the ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ slot on RTE2FM’s Breakfast with Hector this week I was struck by the awful load of old bull printed in the four corners of the regional newspaper world. The impending visits of Obama and the Queen, combined with the sudden appearance on these shores of the […]

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Medium-Sized Lean To, Fairly Old Body

By Ronan | Published: March 1, 2011

A 12 hour Honda 50 cycle got me from Mullingar to Galway for ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story, on Breakfast with Hector from the RTE 2FM studios in Galway city on March 1^st. I’m in training for the big summer meets on the trusty steed, and one day it will go faster than 10 kms […]

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A day late and a dollar early

By Ronan | Published: February 11, 2011

One day later than scheduled (thanks to the shelf-life of the poxy iPhone battery which left your intrepid regional newspaper addict fast asleep when he should have been on air) “Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story” was captured on camera for all eternity for a new RTÉ’s behind the scenes feature for http://www.rte.ie/ten/ Good job I […]

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First Medium-Sized Town… of the year

By Ronan | Published: January 13, 2011

Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story — Breakfast With Hector, RTE 2FM, Tuesday January 11^th The first ‘Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story’ of the year on Breakfast with Hector on RTE 2fm on Tuesday January 11^th proved to be a bit tricky. Not only were the regional newspapers STILL full of pictures from the 2010/2011 Big Freeze, […]

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Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story — Who brought the pliers to France?

By Ronan | Published: December 14, 2010

The truth about those who brought the horse to France!

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Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story… Cheesus, Mary and Brendan

By Ronan | Published: November 23, 2010

A round-up of the best of the regional newspapers for ‘Breakfast with Hector’

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