Memorable events in your lifetime.

Irish Guitarist · 17-08-2016 01:53AM

The Border Fox (Dessie O'Hare) cutting off the Dublin dentists fingers with a hammer and chisel and leaving them in Carlow Cathedral in 1987. I would have been eleven at the time. I lived very close to the cathedral and that was the first time I remember something like that happening close to my home rather than in the North, Dublin or England.

I'm old enough to remember things like the Berlin Wall coming down but in all honesty it meant nothing to me. It was just something that was on television. A mans fingers being left in the cathedral I went to every week was another matter however.

mrsdewinter · 17-08-2016 02:21AM

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

I was in 6th class when Nelson Mandela was freed. The teachers brought the two 6th classes in the school into one big room for the afternoon to watch. Our teacher had played us a movie about Mandela the previous week, which we all were shocked by. But I remember the actual homecoming being a case of about 70 kids sitting in a room watching footage of an empty road for three hours.

It's highly improbable that your class watched his walk to freedom live on TV as Mandela was freed on a Sunday. I remember it well as I was supposed to be studying for my Inter Cert mocks at the time. Great day.

I'm a child of the mid-70s, so I'm going to toss in the Hunger Strikes of the early 1980s. Absolutely incomprehensible to a small child.

Also, quite a few years later, the IRA Ceasefire of 1994.

And the death of Ayrton Senna. I wasn't into Formula 1 at all but it was a huge part of Sunday afternoons in many households at the time. Although I was in my late teens, I was shocked that death could claim the life of a bona fide celebrity. Sounds so stupid now...

foxy farmer · 17-08-2016 02:36AM

A few irish ones off the top of my head.
The Kowloon Bridge running aground and later sinking off the west cork coast. An English man appeared on the scene claiming he bought the wreck for a pound and was taking ownership of the ship for its scrap value.
South American ( i think ) pilot made emergency landing in mallow racecourse. Built a temporary runway to get him airborne.
The unveiling of the Irish National Lottery.
The Millennium Clock in the Liffey and the cock up it turned out to be.
Bishop Casey and his exploits.
The moving statue in Ballinspittle.
TV3 and TnaG start broadcasting. No more 2 channel land.
Riverdance during Irelands hosting the Eurovision.
Introduction of the Euro.
The Celtic Tiger and the crash.
A motorway network is built in Ireland thanks to EU funding.

foggy_lad · 17-08-2016 02:40AM

One of the biggest memories I have is during the fall of communism when Ceausescu was killed and those orphanages and homes were found where they left the handicapped, blind deaf etc children existing on slops and living in their own piss and sh1t until they died from malnourishment or from not being treated like humans.

dublinman1990 · 17-08-2016 03:04AM

I was born in 1990. These are my list of events in no particular order.

The first appearance of Riverdance at Eurovision.
Invention of the iPod, iPad & iPhone from Apple.
Rescue of the Chilean Miners.
Barack Obama as first black POTUS.
Obama's state visit to Ireland.
Queen Elizabeth's state visit to the Republic of Ireland.
Royal wedding of Prince William & Kate Middleton.
The Grand Slam win for the Irish rugby team in 2009.
Munster winning the HC in 2008. (I'm not a Munster fan btw:D)
Ireland's Campaign in Euro 2016.
The emergence of Wales at Euro 2016.
Leicester winning the EPL for the first time.
The unveiling of the Euro in 2002.
Olympics stuff....Sonia O'Sullivan winning Silver for Athletics at Sydney 2000 & Katie Taylor winning Gold for Boxing at London 2012.
The Olympic opening & closing ceremony at London 2012.
The first public opening of the Luas at Sandyford in Dublin.
Gangham Style music video on Youtube.
Deaths of Saddam Hussein & Osama Bin Laden.
Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
St Stephen's day Asian Tsunami.
Ebola & Zika virus.
Foot & Mouth disease outbreak in UK & Ireland.
Brexit referendum.
The first outbreaks of Bird Flu & Swine Flu.
BP Oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
The 150th anniversary of the London Underground.
The first public appearance of the Airbus A380.
Ireland's EU/IMF Bailout.
Collapse of FF/Green government in 2010.
Public release of reports from the Mahon & Moriarty Tribunals.
Reports into clerical child sexual abuse scandals in Ireland's CC.
News of death Pope John Paul II. Election & resignation of Pope Benedict XVI & subsequent election of Pope Francis.
Emergence/Establishment of IS & terror attacks in London, New York, Paris, Turkey & Brussels.
The Big Irish freeze of 2010.
Shock news of celebrity deaths like Heath Ledger, David Bowie, Prince, Alan Rickman & Victoria Wood.
Phone Hacking Scandal by NOTW & News International.
DSO/ASO awareness campaigns for TV signals in the EU.
BBC Three going online only.
Jeremy Clarkson being sacked as TG presenter.

KKkitty · 17-08-2016 03:38AM

The Dunblane massacre. So many young children being killed for no valid reason

Princess Diana being killed.
Veronica Guerin.
David Koresh and the Waco siege.
The IRA's bombings in the North and Great Britain.
Fred and Rosemary West.
Italia 90.
The debacle between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy in Saipan.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

mrsdewinter · 17-08-2016 08:53AM

KKkitty wrote: »

The Dunblane massacre. So many young children being killed for no valid reason
Princess Diana being killed.
Veronica Guerin.
David Koresh and the Waco siege.
The IRA's bombings in the North and Great Britain.
Fred and Rosemary West.
Italia 90.
The debacle between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy in Saipan.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Saipan!! Great call! People moving to Ireland should be compelled to take a stance on who was in the wrong and why. Excellent choice.

Alive1 · 17-08-2016 09:31AM

Neil Armstrong walking on the moon
Decimal Currency replacing "Old Money"
Ireland joining the EEC
The year of the three Popes (1978)
The Betelgeuse disaster at Whiddy Island
Mountbatten Murder
Pope visiting Ireland

Johngoose · 17-08-2016 09:31AM

Nobody remembers that old thing of the Celtic Tiger and the subsequent Crash/Credit Crunch.Too busy enjoying the Recovery clearly.:-)

bonzodog2 · 17-08-2016 09:34AM

Growing up in UK,

Winter 1963
Aberfan
Killing of Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther King
Russian tanks entering Czechoslovakia (PM Alexander Dubcek)
Patty Hearst & the SLA
Charles Manson
Leila Khaled (an early Plane hijacker)
Mary Bell, a teenage murderer
Carlos "the Jackal"
Lesley Whittle, a murdered heiress found in a flood drainage tunnel
Lord Longford and Mary Whitehouse
Lord Lucan
US in SE Asia and leaving Saigon
USSR military parades in Moscow on TV
Ian Smith, PM of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe
Armstrong & Aldrin's moon landing

Dravokivich · 17-08-2016 09:39AM

Sky 1 coming back on Cablelink.

kfallon · 17-08-2016 09:44AM

When they confronted Nasty Nick in the original Big Brother

mikeymouse · 22-08-2016 12:56PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

A few irish ones off the top of my head.
The Kowloon Bridge running aground and later sinking off the west cork coast. An English man appeared on the scene claiming he bought the wreck for a pound and was taking ownership of the ship for its scrap value.
South American ( i think ) pilot made emergency landing in mallow racecourse. Built a temporary runway to get him airborne.
The unveiling of the Irish National Lottery.
The Millennium Clock in the Liffey and the cock up it turned out to be.
Bishop Casey and his exploits.
The moving statue in Ballinspittle.
TV3 and TnaG start broadcasting. No more 2 channel land.
Riverdance during Irelands hosting the Eurovision.
Introduction of the Euro.
The Celtic Tiger and the crash.
A motorway network is built in Ireland thanks to EU funding.

I remember that well foxy,
I recall seeing a film about kids in the 80s with that story as backdrop.
A lot of artistic licence used, but a nice feelgood film.
All I could find is this trailer;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJGuvzJ7U7g

I said · 22-08-2016 01:14PM

Ginger mcloughlins try in 82
Dawn run winning the gold cup
Hungerford shooting in 87
Lockerbie
Townsend ferry sinking
Bishop Casey dipping the wick
The church peaodphiles
Soccer 88,90 and 94

Wibbs · 22-08-2016 02:36PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Jules Bianchi's eventually-fatal accident at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix - I got up early despite a hangover to watch that race live

That reminds me of Ayrton Senna and his fatal crash. Was watching it with mates and we all thought it looked really bad.

The_Valeyard · 22-08-2016 02:42PM

Wibbs wrote: »

That reminds me of Ayrton Senna and his fatal crash. Was watching it with mates and we all thought it looked really bad.

Remember watching that with cousins as a kid and uncle just goes 'he is not coming back from this'

cml387 · 22-08-2016 06:45PM

I remember the fifteenth of May 1974.
I was looking forward to watching the European Cup Final on RTE (we didn't get much live football in those days).
I seem to remember it being advertised and maybe even starting but the coverage stopped and we were told it was because of the Ulster Worker Council's strike.
Two days later it seemed a bit of an insignificant byproduct of the Troubles.

the groutch · 22-08-2016 08:24PM

Marathon becoming Snickers
Libertation of Galway from Indians
End of ice age

Memorable events in your lifetime.

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