The first news story that got to you?

Paco Rodriguez

Was remembering the times as a young teenager, having to switch the channel as my parents wanted to watch the news. And you would see whatever was happening in the world and not give a damn what was happening.
What was the first event that you can remember that triggered some emotion in you?

Mine was the Kursk tragedy. I just imagined being inside it, hammering on the door trying to get someone to help, using up the last amount of air available to you, seeing your comrades struggling too....and then the rescue divers, especially when they first managed to open the hatch, what it must be like going through those dark corridors, waiting to see what corpse your light would shine on.

I would have been 18....so i guess i was a cold basterd before then. I guess, 9/11 was just too extreme to comprehend for me back then.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Jamie Bolger, I'd say I was around 10 at the time but that was the first time I'd go to the paper interested in what was happening

mink_man

AIDS got to me pretty quick..

tommyboy2222

Permanent TSB preparing to raise their standard variable rate again this week.

Oh the humanity!!!

SadieSue

The Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Dunblayne.

genericguy

andrei chikatilo, that russian serial killer - i must've been like 4 or 5, it was thrilling stuff.

mikom

Sneezing panda.

Pope Benedict

The Fr Brendan Smyth abuse story. The man has done untold damage.

caseyann

First Philip Cairns and this little boy who was murdered in Rathcoole,The young girl who was murdered in fettercarin when i was 10.Starving children in Africa, Somalia Kosova,Bosnia.
Every story hits me,there is so many.

mojesius

The crush at Hillsborough.

Chuchoter

The Dr Neary scandal and the more recent miscarriage thing freaked me out. Orla Tinsley and the cystic fibrosis thing too, its just infuriating and so sad they can't get the services they need.

orourkeda

Realising that santy and the tooth fairy didnt exist. Awesome news story.

genericguy

Pope Benedict wrote: »

The Fr Brendan Smyth abuse story. The man has done untold damage.

still didn't fcuking sack him, did you?

cedomination

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055977419

tdot

The Gulf war. Skuds, Saddam and so on. had me watching the news alot.

law86

John Hanrahan battling Merck Sharp and Dome.

AgileMyth

September 11th is the one that springs to mind.

lugha

I guess the first one I remember where I started watching the news to follow it was the Stardust tragedy.

RachPie

Always been interested, but Princess Diana dying and then 9/11 were the two that hit me the most.

gogo

Lousie Woodward, the baby shaker. Remeber getting up early in the morning to watch sky news, seem to remeber been glued to "breaking News....", the first time I remember them doing that as well, 24 hour coverage. Sadly can't actually remember the outcome tho.
I do remember my sister writing to her tho, to say that she was fully behind her and 'knew she didnt do it', She hadnt the price of a stamp and never got to post it, and hasnt lived it down since.:D She was only bout 14 at the time.

storm2811

Columbine massacre then 9/11 then Saddam getting found,the reactions of the older people around me at the time were brilliant.

galwayrush

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Dunblayne.

That got me as well, i remember a lot of things from the 70's, but Dunblayne really hit a very strong chord.:(

Dilynnio

For some reason the most vivid one was when I was 9 when Freddie Mercury died....they did a tribute to him on BBC and I remember asking my mum how he died and she told me that he got AIDS from kissing and I remember being really scared as I had kissed my first boy on the lips that day!

InTheTrees

Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon.

I was small but I remember watching, I dont know whether it was live on rte or just on the news.

bazmaiden

This one always gets me.

gogo

bazmaiden wrote: »

This one always gets me.

+1
I love that i can still manage to laugh at this even after seeing it a hundred times.

InTheTrees

bazmaiden wrote: »

This one always gets me.

Whats wrong with me that i crack up every time I see that?

:pac:

sam34

the gulf war, i think.

i always remember this, even though it didnt get to me/upset me in any way: on the sunday morning that news of princess diana's death broke, one of the sunday papers had an article about whether she would ever marry dodi fayed entitled "it's do or die for di and dodi"

dreamer_ire

Gordon Wilson talking about his daughters last moments following the Enniskillen bombing.

CiaranIRL

the War in Biafra (1968) and the Landing on the Moon (1969) when I was 11/12yrs respectively.

Cullen82

AgileMyth wrote: »

September 11th is the one that springs to mind.

+1

Never felt as much emotion or disbelief as I did watching this unfold. Standing on Dawson Street outside where I was working at the time with everyone crowded around the TV shop window.

Horror

punchdrunk

watching challenger explode on launch,live on TV when I was 5
it really effected me

HalloweenJack

I remember Ayrton Senna dying. I was six.

That had a pretty big effect on me. It stuck in my mind for a long time afterwards.

I don't know why.

jessiejam

The first real one I can remember was jamie bulger. It still upsets me to this day.
Second was the jessica and holly incident in the UK
And then the madaline mc cann story

Always tuned in for the news for these stories.

Pity 2 of the stories had a horrible ending
Heres hoping the third will be better

Feeona

John Lennon getting shot

Mushy

Prob Princess Diana. Nothing like turning on Soccer AM to be told she had died. Tell parents and I lost the tv for a week. Think I was like 6/7.

beks101

The Omagh bombing particularly got to me. I was about thirteen at the time.

I remember about a year on watching a tribute Late Late Show where they interviewed Michael Grimes, a man who had lost his wife, his heavily pregnant daughter and his 18-month old granddaughter in the blast. He had been waiting to welcome his wife home with flowers when he got the news. That interview and his heartache and the sheer sorrow of the whole incident haunted me for ages after that.

I remember as a child seeing Mary Robinson on the news during a visit to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. I just remember in the news package she was holding a young emaciated orphaned child and she was crying. It really moved me at the time and I've been a huge admirer of hers ever since.

ejmaztec

Mushy wrote: »

Prob Princess Diana. Nothing like turning on Soccer AM to be told she had died. Tell parents and I lost the tv for a week. Think I was like 6/7.

That's very sad.:(

thebigleap

The disapperance of six year old Mary Boyle in 1977. It was the first time I realized that children could be taken or hurt by others. It's been thirty-three years and no trace of her has ever been found.

The Stardust fire in 1981 was horrible; the images of the young people trapped in the restrooms, screaming to get out is hard to forget.

Skinback

Sitting in front of our black and white telly watching the newsflash about the death of JFK.

Michellenman

The first that really got to me wasn't on the news, it was a documentary that RTE did about child orphans in Russia. They showed that due to lack of resources and money all children had to have their tonsils removed to prevent infection which would need medication. The kids had to have them cut out without any anesthetic, weren't prepared for it and had their arms and legs tied to a chair and their head held in place by someone else for the whole procedure. I still have images of that burned in to my brain.

News story would be the abduction case of Millie Dowler and the abduction and subsequently the murder cases of Holly wells and Jessica Chapman.

easyeason3

tdot wrote: »

The Gulf war. Skuds, Saddam and so on. had me watching the news alot.

Jesus you just brought back a memory for me there.

I remember watching it as a child just before I went to bed, I had very responsible parents. I must have only been 5 or 6 at the time & I remember it was kinda windy on that night. So every time the wind took up a bit I thought it was the fighter jets coming to bomb us.

I was too scared to call out to anyone & I was too scared to get out of bed. So I just lay there in the dark absolutely terrified.

Mollywolly

http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/aberfandisaster.htm

This was the very first one for me, back in 1966. Most of you won't even have been born then :eek:

I remember it being on the news then the following day at school we were all asked to say a special prayer for the people who had died. Very sad

More recently there was the bombing in Warrington, UK where two children died. I lived there at the time and I still go a bit wobbly if it's ever mentioned on the news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/dates/stories/march/20/newsid_2544000/2544121.stm

df1985

italia 90, i was 4 going on 5 but its one of my first very clear memories, the whole country at a standstill. Being brought to the hitchin post pub in leixlip (now a lidl) to watch the romania game, sat on the ground hyper on club orange!

I remember the morning I woke up to hear diana had died.

9/11 is the one i will always remember the exact circumstances of how i heard. Older generations like my parents always know where they were when they heard about jfk. i think 9/11 is the equivalent for my generation.

Kooli

The first time I had that genuine emotional response to a news story was the Hillsborough disaster. I was totally freaked out by it, it really affected me.

jester77

The border fox chopping off that lads fingers and sending them in the post to the church

Rockn

I was going to say no news story really fazes me; another war, another bombing, another killing, another earthquake - meh; but actually 9-11 was probably the one thing I saw on the news where I sat up and thought "what the hell? That's mental." That and man falling on ice.

OutlawPete

The news that Elvis was dead .. in 1981.

I cried for hours.

I was eight and had just watched King Creole and Frankie and Johnnie back to back.

I asked my parents who Elvis was and could I see him if him sometime.

They told me he died four years previous and I ran out and jumped on my bike and cycled and cried and cycled and cried for what seemed like forever.

pablomakaveli

September is probably the first news story i remember that really shocked me. I remember coming out of scholl and my mother told me a plane had crashed into a building in New York. When i got home it was on all the tv channels.

It was pretty scary watching it all unfold before our eyes like that.

drdeadlift

af447 going amiss