Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

freshpopcorn · 31-08-2017 07:27PM #1

I was about 5 and I was starting school the next day. I have no really memory of it. My mother says she told my self, my siblings and my grandmother.
She found out off my father/the radio. She was collecting him and his brother from a pub about 60km away. She was waiting hours. He came out of the pub and told her Diana Ross had died. She heard on the radio on the way home it was actually princess Diana.

Where were you when you heard princess Diana had died?

xzanti · 31-08-2017 07:28PM

In the scratcher.

Mech1 · 31-08-2017 07:30PM

In bed listening to 088 mobile calls on the scanner!

Zebra3 · 31-08-2017 07:30PM

Had just got out of bed to go and play ball. It was a Sunday morning.

The fuss over it all here in Ireland was utterly embarrassing. Blubbering fools going on and on about her as if she was some sort of saint.

The rise of grief junkies started that day.

Bunny Colvin · 31-08-2017 07:31PM

At a hotel in Dublin, getting ready for Mayo and Offaly in the '97 All Ireland Semi Final. Can remember it like it was yesterday!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-08-2017 07:31PM

I've honestly no idea. I've tried to recall but it's just too long ago.

GBX · 31-08-2017 07:32PM

Just came home from Aslan midnight at the Olympia.

Erik Shin · 31-08-2017 07:32PM

Sat on my couch after a barrel load of Guinness, genuinely saddened at the time

freshpopcorn · 31-08-2017 07:32PM

Reign Thoughtless Runner wrote: »

I've honestly no idea. I've tried to recall but it's just too long ago.

Hopefully there isn't a survey on it!

Bunny Colvin · 31-08-2017 07:32PM

Mech1 wrote: »

In bed listening to 088 mobile calls on the scanner!

You could listen to random mobile phone calls back then? What was that like?!

roroliam · 31-08-2017 07:33PM

On a scooter coming out of a tunnel in Paris

gingernut79 · 31-08-2017 07:33PM

Came in after 4 from the nightclub and heard it on the radio, used to listen to bbc radio 1 all the time, they were only reporting she was hurt, I didn't know she had died till I woke up and the station was basically off the air with sombre music and occasional announcements.

gramar · 31-08-2017 07:34PM

On the couch about lunchtime on a Sunday. There was a news flash to announce it. I don't know why I remember as I wasn't really affected by it.

Mech1 · 31-08-2017 07:34PM

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

You could listen to random mobile phone calls back then? What was that like?!

Interesting / funny / sad

All local people some wierd **** goes on.

Uriel. · 31-08-2017 07:34PM

Sitting on the sitting room floor flicking channels when I saw it on sky news.
Ran upstairs to tell my mam who was (and still is) obsessed with Princess Diana. She didn't believe me.

But when she came down to see she was devastated. It was almost like a family member died.

Fratton Fred · 31-08-2017 07:38PM

making a dirty great big fry up after a load of ale the night before.

It was a weird day in the UK, Capital Radio just played sad music all day long.

Rubberlegs · 31-08-2017 07:39PM

I had slept over at my parents house and my mother came in to tell me that morning. It was shocking enough at the time I suppose, but can't understand it being in the news so much all these years later.

hairyslug · 31-08-2017 07:41PM

I would have been in my late teens, I think I was on a couch, watching a early morning football show on Sky Sports and they recommended that we turn over to a news channel.

SEPT 23 1989 · 31-08-2017 07:43PM

Coming down off something or other

Mint Sauce · 31-08-2017 07:51PM

At mass. Not really paying attention, but woke up when the priest offered a prayer for the Royal Family.

retro:electro · 31-08-2017 07:53PM

I was 9 and sharing a bed with my older sister. My mam came in the room to wake my sister and tell her and when she said "they think Diana is dead" in my sleepy hazy state I thought she said "they think that Anna is dead".
I was like no mam I'm still alive!!!

Galwayguy35 · 31-08-2017 07:57PM

Watching Sky News on the box when the news broke that she was dead.

Twas a fast 20 years.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 31-08-2017 07:58PM

I was 8 I think. Was a Sunday morning, my mam woke me to tell me. I remember telling her I didn't care. There was a football semi final or final or something on that day and school started the next day.

Arghus · 31-08-2017 07:58PM

In bed.

luketitz · 31-08-2017 08:00PM

I neither recall, nor care. Not exactly one of them 'seminal moments' in the life of the average thirty-something Irishman, i would posit!

eviltwin · 31-08-2017 08:00PM

We'd been at a house party. It was our first night out since our daughter had been born in June and we got locked. In the taxi home the driver told us there had been a car accident in Paris, Dodi was dead and Diana was seriously injured. I thought he was taking the piss out of us because we'd been drinking but when we got back we put on Sky news and watched for a bit before we went to bed.

The next morning I woke up with a banging hangover, himself went down to get coffee, I heard him go down stairs and then seconds later run back up to say Diana had died. I couldn't believe it, I think we spent that entire weekend watching the coverage of her body being returned to the UK and then the week up to her funeral watching and feeling a sense of shock.

I've tried to explain to my daughter just how famous Diana was. In a world before the internet where the only place to get information on celebrities was newspapers, tv and magazines Diana was everywhere. Think Kim Kardashian times 1000. Her death was shocking and I felt so sorry for her two sons especially seeing them walk behind her coffin at her funeral.

Teyla Emmagan · 31-08-2017 08:01PM

In Sydney. Buying drink in the offie, to be exact. The news was on the radio.

jluv · 31-08-2017 08:01PM

Was living in NY at the time and had just finished a shift as a waitress. Used to listen to a radio station notorious for playing pranks. Announced the death of Diana and thought "ah lads this is taking it too far" . When I realised it was true I went home and stayed up half the night watching news reports..

alchemist33 · 31-08-2017 08:03PM

My cousins were bunking on my living room floor, being up in Dublin for (I think) a U2 concert. When I came down for breakfast in the morning they had the TV on and told me. It seemed a bit unbelievable for a time.