Our resident newspaper addict Ronan Casey joined Anton for his weekly local news round-up featuring the incredible story of Ireland's luckiest turkey, Shane MacGowan's new Westmeath-created teeth, another barmy Irish world record attempt, man seeks bail change to look after wife (and feed horses), and STOP! hammer time...
FOR VIDEO FOOTAGE OF IRELAND'S LUCKIEST TURKEY, CLICK HERE
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This is Trixie the Turkey - a resident at St Mary's Nursing Home - the only turkey in Ireland that would vote for Christmas, after being spared the oven for the third year in a row! (Video: Joe O'Shaughnessy)See the story here: http://connachttribune.ie/trixie-the-galway-turkey-who-just-loves-christmas-209/
Posted by Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune on Thursday, 17 December 2015
Ronan's weekly review is on every Friday morning, at 09:40, where he scours every regional newspaper in Ireland in search of the quirkiest stories. His book on the subject of local newspaper stories 'Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story' is on sale via Gill and Macmillan. Follow him on Twitter here
