What was the first big news story that caught your attention when you were young!

freshpopcorn

I'm almost twenty five and their were stories I'd slightly remember from when I young such as Veronica Guerin, the Omagh bombing and of course 9/11.The first real story I remembered following tough was when Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were murdered in Soham. I suppose I really connected with the story because I was around their at the time and I was certain they'd come home during those lovely Summer days.

What was the first big news story that caught your attention when you were young!

Lady is a tramp

Jamie Bulger I think. I'm 31, that would've happened in the early nineties.

Melodeon

The Apollo 11 mission, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

bodice ripper

This thread like a month ago.

FizzleSticks

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refusetolose

was only 3 at the time but remember all the commotion about john lennon getting killed

SEPT 23 1989

Almost 25?

24 and three quarters sounds better

Armchair Andy

Some Dublin bollix with hair was whinging about Mondays.

Bozo Skeleton

Elvis Presley dying on my 6th birthday.
I vividly remember it being on the radio at a family picnic and thinking this seems like a big deal.

Rubberlegs

The Yorkshire Ripper and the IRA hunger strikers.

freshpopcorn

FizzleSticks wrote: »

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I remember 9/11 but I never really followed it on the news at the time because a relative of mine died at the time at we weren't at home for much of the news at the time!

infogiver

I'm 52 and born in 1965 and distinctly remember my mother lifting me into her arms to point out the moon "where the men went in a space ship" for Apollo 11 and back out to the garden again to ask God to bring Apollo 13 safely

vandriver

The Tenerife airport disaster in March 77,where two 747s collided on the runway killing 583 people.

I can remember earlier news stories like Princess Diana dying and Omagh in 1998 but I always remember the 1999 Izmit earthquake in turkey .. remember wakening up around 5 am the morning after it happened (would've been about midnight Irish time) because I liked to get up as early as possible during the bright summer months and reading about it on teletext and seeing euronews cover it and then hearing all about it on the news later that day. I remember thinking, that's awful how many are dead

Also the Kursk submarine in August 2000. This had a huge impact on me. I'd say that is actually the first news story to really impact me, felt like holding my breath any time I thought of the submariners running out of air.

infogiver

vandriver wrote: »

The Tenerife airport disaster in March 77,where two 747s collided on the runway killing 583 people.

Oh yes absolutely terrifying.
Also the Munich Olympics hostage horror in 1972. My mother was and is and I am too a glutton for news.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I can recall being fascinated by the Berlin Airlift.

511

Dunblane massacre when I was 9.

mrmoonlight

Jamie bulger in 1993 and the fred West murders 1994 are my earliest memory of news catching my attention. I'm age 33

MonkieSocks

I remember how shocked the nation felt when we all heard about the shooting in Dallas, Texas.














Who shot JR

FizzleSticks

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CoolHandBandit

Vietnam war reports.

Lady is a tramp

vandriver wrote: »

The Tenerife airport disaster in March 77,where two 747s collided on the runway killing 583 people.

Holy f*ck, never heard of that!! :eek:

con___manx1

Jamie bulger and the gulf war. I remember seeing tanks on the tv and sadam huesain ; )

Water John

Srameen, your a good age.
My first memory of a public event. is the funeral of JFK on the radio. Michael O'Hehir happened to be in the USA and did the 4 hour stint.

Earlier seeing the light of Cork Airport flashing in the distance. Opened in 1961 and I was 4.

DJIMI TRARORE

Don Tidey kidnapping and Shergar going missing,some German fellow as well

Water John

Tiede Hederman?

Berlin Wall coming down I suppose when I was nine.

Salmon Leap

The Dublin & Monaghan bombings in May 1974. I was 7 and heard the Dublin ones going off from Tara Street station with my parents.

Pherekydes

The assassination of JFK. I remember my parents being very upset that 'our' president had been shot.

retro:electro

OJ Simpson trial. It was when we first got Sky and I think I was around 7 or 8, they'd do highlights on Sky news of the trial that day and me and mam were glued to it.
Also when princess Diana died. I was sleeping in the same bed as my sister and my mam came in to wake her up and tell her and she said "they think Diana is dead", and I thought she said "they think that Anna's dead".. I thought she was talking about me and started crying "I'm not dead mam" :pac:

juno10353

President Kennedy visiting Ireland in 63 and being assassinated shortly after.

The Aberfan disaster in 1966 where a childrens school was buried under an avalanche of slack from the coalmines killing 116 children and 28 adults.

Cheshire Cat

infogiver wrote: »

Oh yes absolutely terrifying.
Also the Munich Olympics hostage horror in 1972. My mother was and is and I am too a glutton for news.

I remember Munich, too. Was almost 6 at the time. We had been given a toy Olympic Stadium by our grandparents and I had the mascot, a Dachshound whose body consisted of the Olympic rings. I remember the big excitement and pride in having the games in Germany and then the upset and horror at what unfolded.
I think it was the first time I realised that people outside of fairytales could be truly evil.

Salmon Leap

Water John wrote: »

Tiede Hederman?

That was Dr Tiede Herrema. As far as I remember he was kidnapped by Eddie Gallagher & Marian Coyle. Ended with a siege in a house in Monasterevin IRRC.

racso1975

Philip Cairns.

Richard Hillman

The Russian coup d'etat in 1991. I was quite young at the time and didn't realise the significance but it must have been a very scary time for the world.

The Bosnian and Gulf War too.

It is probably the stem of why I am so interested in global conflicts, war and history. I was watching the News at Ten with Trevor McDonald before I was watching Match of the Day with Des Lynam :pac:

eviltwin

Lockerbie bombing

Shannon757

The global financial crash in 08.

I'm a lot younger than you guys

Tell me how

Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in 1986 - I was 7.
Remember being amazed because it was the first newsflash I saw where regular programming was interrupted with a news program.

I can also recall hearing about the Lockerbie disaster in 88. It happened in December and there was pretty strong storms the day the news broke. I remember being nervous every time I heard the wind get very loud that it was the sound of a plane crashing.

Mint Sauce

Off the top of my head, sporting events wise would have been Mexico 86, I knew there was a big football tournament going on, but that would have been about it. News wise, the Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster in 1987, the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise, after its bow doors were not securely closed.

fuzzydunlop85

Eric Cantona retiring from football, must have been about 10 or 11. Heard it on the radio in the back of the auld mans car and burst into tears. Remember he took me to supermacs to cheer me up!

Water John

Shannon, your a chisler.

MilesMorales1

I kind of remember 9/11 (I would have been 8) but not specifically. Mainly cos there was no proper tv, it was all news and I was annoyed about it.

James 007

The Kerry babies, Don Tidey, The border Fox, Shergar

IvySlayer

Youngest I can remember is Princess Diana car crash

ChikiChiki

Princess Diana death was the first big one. Didn't really know who she was at that point but I remember mother and auntie making a big fuss about it.

Edit @ivyslayer snap!

Grayson

Hunger strikes, Falklands war and a ship sinking in Portugal.

When I was a kid I was on a bus back from Dublin with my Dad and the woman sitting next to use asked me if I knew who the man in the billboard was. I said it was Bobby Sands. It was Charlie Haughey. I think I was 5 at the time.

I also remember waiting for the school bus one morning when I was about the same age. My mum was talking to a neighbour and they were saying the school bus was always late. I said "I blame the common market".

I might have been a precocious kid.

Shannon757

Water John wrote: »

Shannon, your a chisler.

I'm like a baby compared to some on here :eek:

knucklehead6

I remember the olympics in '84. The Falklands War in '82.

But the first one that actually grabbed my attention was the Challenger disaster in '86, probably cos I had seen her in the flesh as it were and thought of it as 'my shuttle'

Grayson

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I kind of remember 9/11 (I would have been 8) but not specifically. Mainly cos there was no proper tv, it was all news and I was annoyed about it.

Jesus I'm old. I watched that in a pub. We only had a tiny TV in the house and about an hour in I said fcuk it, I need a better TV.


I was chatting with a friend today. She's 10 years younger than me and she can't remember the troubles. The university I was in was closed down one day because of a bomb threat. I remember a security guard checking my bag in the Virgin megastore. It's strange how much difference 10 years can make.

The Yorkshire ripper, i was only born when he started but i lived there so heard about him all the time until his arrest in 81/82
Also the tidey kidnap, i watched that on the news in England

Oh, & the miners strikes, they were big news

infogiver

FizzleSticks wrote: »

You don't have to justify yourself, I just always find people's memories of 9/11 interesting. Great thread on it here also.

I didn't take a lot in from watching the news coverage, it was only later that week when a paper lying about had a 10 page spread on it then I remembered looking through it and the magnitude of the whole event started to sink in, it made more sense how all the adults around me were acting that day.

My only child had started school the day previous. I'd collected her from school that day and was in the car when Joe Duffy interrupted his show with the breaking news. It was unfathomable.