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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!

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Shannon757

The global financial crash in 08.

I'm a lot younger than you guys

eviltwin

Lockerbie bombing

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:

racso1975

Philip Cairns.

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.

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.

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.

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:

Pherekydes

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

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.

[Deleted User]

Berlin Wall coming down I suppose when I was nine.

Water John

Tiede Hederman?

DJIMI TRARORE

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

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.

con___manx1

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

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:

CoolHandBandit

Vietnam war reports.

FizzleSticks

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MonkieSocks

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

Who shot JR

mrmoonlight

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

511

Dunblane massacre when I was 9.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I can recall being fascinated by the Berlin Airlift.

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.

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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.

vandriver

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

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

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!

Rubberlegs

The Yorkshire Ripper and the IRA hunger strikers.

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.

Armchair Andy

Some Dublin bollix with hair was whinging about Mondays.