Comin Home/Goin Back For Christmas.

AlekSmart · 28-12-2013 2:28pm #1

Any opinions on the new-found media fixation with meetin people at d'airport ?

This year particularly seemed to see far more meejia interest with such stuff,with reporters and camera persons abounding in Arrivals to record emotional families reuniting en masse.

I'm wonderin if the prosess will be repeated at Departures over the next week or even if we'll see the same families displaying how they survived Irish Christmas craíc intact and remain on speaking terms ?

Is there an eventual end in sight I wonder ?....a TV3 News crew at the 13 bus terminus,Harmonstown Dart Station or perhaps even Broombridge Station...:eek: :eek: :eek:

Could it be worth a "Gathering" style PR thing for 2014 ?

Daqster · 28-12-2013 2:31pm

They didn't turn up, did they.

Nevermind, maybe next year.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 28-12-2013 2:31pm

Wut

Ruu · 28-12-2013 2:33pm

Sure loads of people interviewed never heard of the Gathering, claiming that it was responsible for the extra visitors this year is hilarious.

wyndham · 28-12-2013 2:34pm

Nothing new about it. Media have been a feature at the airport at Christmas for as long as I have been alive.

fatknacker · 28-12-2013 2:36pm

It's just extra "heartwarming" filler the news seems to like to report. Oh the poor returning emigrants and all that jazz. BUT! without it there would never have been this>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBQuPs5n8Wo

[-0-] · 28-12-2013 2:39pm

Sorry to burst your bubble but it isn't new. They've been doing it for years and years.

LizT · 28-12-2013 2:45pm

TV3 were in Terminal 2 when I arrived in, thank God they were interviewing someone when I came through. Didn't want to see myself abandoning my luggage and running tearfully towards my mammy :P

AlekSmart · 28-12-2013 2:51pm

Daqster wrote: »

They didn't turn up, did they.

Nevermind, maybe next year.

Turned up all right......spent 3 days listenin to grumblin about how dear Taxi's have gone in Dublin,cos I did'nt go out to pick em up !!!

Witchie · 28-12-2013 2:51pm

They weren't there the night my mum and I went to collect my sister. After me going to all the effort of making a big banner for her.

Professey Chin · 28-12-2013 2:53pm

It's nice to see people reunited after however long. Personally I'd rather try the surprise approach then meeting in the airport though.

AlekSmart · 28-12-2013 2:54pm

Witchie wrote: »

They weren't there the night my mum and I went to collect my sister. After me going to all the effort of making a big banner for her.

Now that IS good Witchie !!

Open up all kinds of possibilities,especially for neighbours who don't get on.....:):):) Hmmmmmm

Legs.Eleven · 28-12-2013 3:26pm

I love all that ****e and has me crying hot, snotty tears at the drop of a hat. I'm ridiculously sentimental. Probably because there's been a lot of emigration in my own family and I spent half of my childhood in Dublin airport greeting and saying goodbye to siblings.

camel jockey · 28-12-2013 7:55pm

Glad to see that the so called 'best and brightest' are back for Christmas.

AlekSmart · 28-12-2013 8:59pm

camel jockey wrote: »

Glad to see that the so called 'best and brightest' are back for Christmas.

I wonder if,in the pre-internet, Skype n Facebook days,was there as much hoo-hah made about these reunions ?

It's my experience that many new generation emigrants,tend to hit the homeland several times per anum.... not always interacting with their beloved families either....;)

Wompa1 · 28-12-2013 9:07pm

My first thought when back. "Jesus, Terminal 2 has turned to ****e...why spend millions to build this place and then not bother to keep the floors clean!?"

Well actually my first thought was, nice of the guy checking my passport to not even look up to acknowledge me.

Comin Home/Goin Back For Christmas.

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