What news coverage will you always remember

Specialun

For me because of my age itwould be 9/11

I remember a bunch of people gathering outside a cafe looking in at the news story on bbc as breaking news after school

What news coverage will you always remember....either big or small

Birneybau

I imagine that will be most people's answer.

whiskeyman

Freddie Starr eating a hamster

scary

Obviously 911 but also the live coverage of the OJ Simpson trial.

Slippin Jimmy

911. I remember watching the news as the second plane hit the tower. I was young enough when it happened and didn't really understand what was going on. Still get shivers when I see the footage shown.

buried

I was having sex while the 9/11 was happening. I remember it moreso for the sex than the 9/11 event though

Specialun

whiskeyman wrote: »

Freddie Starr eating a hamster

Never heard that. He ate a hamster..should i ask why

Liam McPoyle

Hillsborough, it happened on the day I was having a birthday party.

I vividly remember watching it on the news with my dad.

Zebra3

Birmingham 6/Guildford 4 being released.

SEPT 23 1989

I am old enough to remember when a "news flash" really meant something big

We interrupt this programme...

It was Heysel for me

another episode in the disaster zone that was public safety in the 1980's

fleet_admiral

11/9

Specialun

buried wrote: »

I was having sex while the 9/11 was happening. I remember it moreso for the sex than the 9/11 event though

What was his name

NomadicGray

Chernobyl, i didn't even know what a nuclear panner plant was.

Grays Sports Almanac

Aengus MacGrianna touching up his make-up live on air.

Birneybau

mixery wrote: »

clarkson getting sacked.

WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?!?

Balmed Out

Fall of the iron curtain would be the biggest, suppose more of an impressionable age and it just turned the geopolitical world as I knew it on its head. For some reason Romania's ceaucescu and his wife especially.

Bret Hart

The day the great man Sir Alex retired Awful day for Utd fans and football in general.

retro:electro

For me it was when Holly and Jessica went missing and all the subsequent coverage that followed. It was so heartbreaking to watch. Two gorgeous little girls.

foggy_lad

The Killing of hundreds of Indians in Bhopal India by leaks from a Union Carbide plant in 1984 and seeing the bodies lined up for mass burials, followed by the Air India plane crash in 1985 and seeing the bodies being lined up in a hanger at Cork airport.

Hannibal Smith

The Omagh bombing. I clicked on to the news half way through the bulletin and saw the devastation. I remember wondering 'where the hell that happen? Itslike something you'd see from the north in the 80s'. My jaw dropped when I heard it was Omagh.

keysersoze1

911 and dianas death in paris

Sheep Lover

The day Westlife broke up

Kevin McCloud

Miriam's choker.

keith16

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Shocking.

foggy_lad

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I am old enough to remember when a "news flash" really meant something big

We interrupt this programme...

Except when they were on UTV because that just meant the police wanted keyholders in certain areas/streets to go to their shops and open up so they could be searched for IRA incendiaries.

Streetwalker

Sitting and watching the twin towers fall from the roof of my apartment in Brooklyn and listening to the reports come in over the radio. Surreal isn't the word.

Besides that the release of the Guildford four.

ArnoldJRimmer

Man falling on the ice

thomil

Well, 9/11 was already mentioned, but that one will remain etched in my mind forever. However, both the Boxing Day tsunami and the 2011 Tohoku tsunami are two others that will stick with me.

Honorable mention will have to go to the Eyafjallajokull eruption in 2009, which shut down the airspace over Europe, and with that the transport network of the company I was working for at the time.

Balmed Out

Yeah the tsunami in South East Asia was another massive one. Tears watching it.

fleet_admiral

Bret Hart wrote: »

The day the great man Sir Alex retired Awful day for Utd fans and football in general.

The day Howard Webb retired was worse for utd fans

Iranoutofideas

Fianna Fail denying the IMF were in town while the BBC were confirming it.

RomanKnows

Like others, I'll always remember 911. I was working in the home electronics department of a department store at the time. Just seeing all the televisions change over from Home and Away or whatever was on to this breaking coverage, and the crowds of people just starting to gather in the shop as the news kept developing.

On a personal note, the death of Dr. Garret Fitzgerald. I'd seen the man speak on a number of occasions over the years and was a huge admirer of his. I was in a hotel in Vietnam at the time and when I read the news I was shocked and deeply saddened. Listening in to the resulting radio coverage about this extraordinary statesman and intellectual really brought home to me about how we have people who truly wanted to do the State some service. There was stories about his early life working in Aer Lingus working out schedules and time slots before computers and presenting these at early conferences in Europe about the airline industry. About doing a 14 hour slot on TV at the age of 83 covering the general election count. His attempts to legislate for divorce and abortion in a deeply Catholic 1980's.

RomanKnows

Like others, I'll always remember 911. I was working in the home electronics department of a department store at the time. Just seeing all the televisions change over from Home and Away or whatever was on to this breaking coverage, and the crowds of people just starting to gather in the shop as the news kept developing.

On a personal note, the death of Dr. Garret Fitzgerald. I'd seen the man speak on a number of occasions over the years and was a huge admirer of his. I was in a hotel in Vietnam at the time and when I read the news I was shocked and deeply saddened. Listening in to the resulting radio coverage about this extraordinary statesman and intellectual really brought home to me about how we have people who truly want to do the State some service. There were stories about his early life working in Aer Lingus working out schedules and time slots before computers and presenting these at early conferences in Europe about the airline industry. About doing a 14 hour slot on TV at the age of 83 covering the general election count. His attempts to legislate for divorce and abortion in a deeply Catholic 1980's. His lectures and writing. His reputation as being a genuinely nice human being in an era of increasing cynicism and contempt for politicians.

Bret Hart

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The day Howard Webb retired was worse for utd fans

Wasn't as worse as the day Mike Riley retired,that man was a brilliant and very competent referee.

Un Croissant

Boston bombings. I remember some of us here on the site were tuned into police radios and comparing it to news reports. A crazy time.

anncoates

9/11

That awful late 80s concatenation of NI events: Gibraltar, The Milltown Cemetery attack and the killing of the two British soldiers.

Hillsborough, Heysel and Bradford (85-89)

HeidiHeidi

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

The Omagh bombing. I clicked on to the news half way through the bulletin and saw the devastation. I remember wondering 'where the hell that happen? Itslike something you'd see from the north in the 80s'. My jaw dropped when I heard it was Omagh.

This.

Was absolutely stopped in my tracks when I happened upon the TV newsflash.

Didn't hear about 9/11 until that evening, and didn't see a TV till about 10pm that night. I will never ever forget that first sight I saw of the planes flying into the towers. The rest of the world was used to it at that point ( iykwim) but it was the first myself and the group I was with had seen of it. Utterly shocking.

hairyprincess

Nelson Mandela being released, my mother made us all get up and leave our Sunday dinner to go into the TV in the sitting room.

The rescue of the Chilean miners I stayed up until the wee hours watching that.

Freedom is wheresit's at with me apparently!

One eyed Jack

The death of Princess Diana.

The fall of the Berlin Wall.

The announcement by the Ayatollah Khomeini of a fatwa on Salman Rushdie.

9/11.

The Papal elections.

Seamus Heaney's death.

Spike Milligan's death.

The discovery of Josef Fritzl's children.

Michael Jackson's trials.

The numerous reports into child abuse within the RCC and the stories that were uncovered.

efb

Enniskillen bombing
Wako siege

Duckworth_Luas

The Challenger disaster

The fact a civilian was going on the mission was big news. We had learned about it at school, space shuttles, orbit, spacewalks etc

Some after school TV show on RTE presented by Thelma Mansfield was interrupted by a newsflash. First time I ever seen one.

diomed

Nelson Mandela walking to freedom. No one knew what he looked like.

jca

buried wrote: »

I was having sex while the 9/11 was happening. I remember it moreso for the sex than the 9/11 event though

That explains your user name:D

Arnold Layne

The day the music died.

I said bye bye that's your last cream pie. ..

jca

Princess Di or the Japanese/ Asian Tsunamis.

kjl

Grays Sports Almanac wrote: »

Aengus MacGrianna touching up his make-up live on air.

what!

nocoverart

Sheep Lover wrote: »

The day Westlife broke up

You were sad that Westlife broke up? Jesus, you really are a Sheep.

jamesoneill

Erica roe streak at Twickenham

lertsnim

Birmingham 6 being released, Nelson Mandela being released also, the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife.

Bobby Baccala

The disappearance of holly wells and Jessica Chapman, creeped me out a lot at the time.

Also when farrah noors body was found in the royal canal and all the shít that happened afterwards

otoolepw

9/11 (was showing my mother how to send an email when I got a call from my bro to switch the TV on)

Diana's death, a very vivid memory, was going to the U2 PopMart gig the following night in Lansdowne Rd