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

freshpopcorn · 23-03-2017 09:37PM #1

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 · 23-03-2017 09:38PM

Jamie Bulger I think.

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

Melodeon · 23-03-2017 09:39PM

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 · 23-03-2017 09:39PM

This thread like a month ago.

FizzleSticks · 23-03-2017 09:40PM

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refusetolose · 23-03-2017 09:40PM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-03-2017 09:41PM

Almost 25?

24 and three quarters sounds better

Armchair Andy · 23-03-2017 09:42PM

Some Dublin bollix with hair was whinging about Mondays.

Bozo Skeleton · 23-03-2017 09:42PM

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 · 23-03-2017 09:43PM

The Yorkshire Ripper and the IRA hunger strikers.

freshpopcorn · 23-03-2017 09:44PM

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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 · 23-03-2017 09:44PM

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 · 23-03-2017 09:45PM

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

23-03-2017 09:48PM

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 · 23-03-2017 09:48PM

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 · 23-03-2017 09:49PM

I can recall being fascinated by the Berlin Airlift.

23-03-2017 09:53PM

Dunblane massacre when I was 9.

mrmoonlight · 23-03-2017 09:53PM

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

MonkieSocks · 23-03-2017 09:53PM

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

Who shot JR

FizzleSticks · 23-03-2017 09:53PM

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CoolHandBandit · 23-03-2017 09:53PM

Vietnam war reports.

Lady is a tramp · 23-03-2017 09:55PM

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 · 23-03-2017 09:57PM

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

Water John · 23-03-2017 09:57PM

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 · 23-03-2017 09:59PM

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

Water John · 23-03-2017 10:00PM

Tiede Hederman?

23-03-2017 10:00PM

Berlin Wall coming down I suppose when I was nine.

Salmon Leap · 23-03-2017 10:00PM

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 · 23-03-2017 10:01PM

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

retro:electro · 23-03-2017 10:01PM

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 · 23-03-2017 10:05PM

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.

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

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