Reeling In The Years

AJB39 · 09-05-2021 09:09PM

martingriff wrote: »

Barak Obama been prophetic there

Sadly the world never acted on Obama’s words including the U.S. itself. We’ve seen the result of that inaction over the last year and a bit.

martingriff · 09-05-2021 09:11PM

AJB39 wrote: »

Sadly the world never acted on Obama’s words including the U.S. itself. We’ve seen the result of that inaction over the last year and a bit.

Actually Obama did he set up a board to deal with a pandemic with Fauci (I believe) as its head but it was disbanded by the next president

stargazer 68 · 09-05-2021 09:55PM

AJB39 wrote: »

Sadly the world never acted on Obama’s words including the U.S. itself. We’ve seen the result of that inaction over the last year and a bit.

I'm watching World War z and that was made in 2013! Obama in 2014, any more after that?

L1011 · 09-05-2021 09:57PM

L1011 wrote: »

Looking at this, there's plenty there

https://www.rte.ie/news/special-reports/2014/1218/667685-year-in-review-2014/

Would expect the Malaysian Airlines, O'Keeffe, Pantigate, Anglo Trial, water charges protests, Higgins visiting Lizzie, deaths of Reynolds and Paisley, Shatter walking, Tuam and Garth ******* Brooks to make it from that list at the very least.

Less of these than I thought would got in. Don't make any bets based on my predictions :pac:

PTH2009 · 09-05-2021 10:02PM

Say Your Number wrote: »

That Brooks thing was mental.

Yeah total farse, Still pissed off at it a bit, Brooks himself showing how greedy he was

They should of showed the footage from the French match for the 6 Nations win

breezy1985 · 09-05-2021 10:21PM

martingriff wrote: »

Barak Obama been prophetic there

A big portion of the money he put into research after that went into the development of the fledgling RNA vaccine research

breezy1985 · 09-05-2021 10:28PM

ongarite wrote: »

Germany mauling Brazil was amazing!

Was watching that getting ready to go out to dinner on my holidays and even my non sporting missus said F it were staying to watch this.

Never remember watching another match where I was so sure that it was gonna be hugely historic. From the Neymar jersey and the tears all the way through to the end

HeidiHeidi · 09-05-2021 11:27PM

Anyone know if/when this is repeated?

Sky box didn't record it this evening

breezy1985 · 09-05-2021 11:34PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Anyone know if/when this is repeated?

Sky box didn't record it this evening

It goes up on the RTE player straight away

HeidiHeidi · 09-05-2021 11:38PM

breezy1985 wrote: »

It goes up on the RTE player straight away

That's what I thought, but it wasn't on it via Sky catch up earlier when I checked.....

Billy Ocean · 10-05-2021 01:51AM

Shelga wrote: »

So unbelievably mental! :pac: I don’t think I could name 2 of his songs!

if the concert was in my local GAA pitch I'd have no interest,couldn't get over 400,000 tickets been sold

Billy Ocean · 10-05-2021 01:56AM

1st show of this run not to focus on financial downturn, alot of sport in it which was good, was in the Canaries for the Brazil Germany game, think they got 4 goals in 6 mins at 1 stage

breezy1985 · 10-05-2021 07:55AM

Billy Ocean wrote: »

if the concert was in my local GAA pitch I'd have no interest,couldn't get over 400,000 tickets been sold

I thought queueing outside shops for tickets died out way before 2014. Lots of people wanting notice and there was suddenly a lot of outraged fans I knew who had never mentioned Garth Brooks before

10-05-2021 10:25AM

Might have missed it but was there no mention of Ireland’s 6 nations win 2014?

I saw the bit about O’Driscoll retiring alright

Declan A Walsh · 10-05-2021 10:28AM

Batrachotox wrote: »

Might have missed it but was there no mention of Ireland’s 6 nations win 2014?

I saw the bit about O’Driscoll retiring alright

It was mentioned immediately before O'Driscoll retiring.

10-05-2021 10:58AM

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

It was mentioned immediately before O'Driscoll retiring.

Ah grand thanks, must have been getting the tea at that point

10-05-2021 11:43AM

Always been bemused by the Garth Brooks thing. How did he manage to sell that many tickets in the first place. I don't know anyone who listens to him.

LordBasil · 10-05-2021 12:20PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Always been bemused by the Garth Brooks thing. How did he manage to sell that many tickets in the first place. I don't know anyone who listens to him.

It could be a case that you don't know anyone who will admit to listening to Garth Brooks. :P

Surprised they left out the 2 Malaysian Airlines Plane Crashes - they were both huge stories at the time.

10-05-2021 12:40PM

Shelga wrote: »

How the **** is the ice bucket challenge 7 years ago!

Time has sped up because every year feels indistinguishable from each other as we all live in a constantly overstimulated distracted state due to smartphones and modern technology and the fact fashions dont seem to have changed much in 7 or 8 years. I find for different events of the last decade my guess for when it happened can be wrong by up to 3 or 4 years. In my mind 2013 onwards feels like "nowadays", 2008 - 2012 feels like its own era (recession era but smartphones not ubiquitious yet, and fashions hadnt yet become all tight-fitting with *those* haircuts on lads yet) and 2007 backwards is like the old slower world, looks really primitive now.

tadgho · 10-05-2021 01:35PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Good old Garth. He loves Ireland so much and was happy to do one gig except then one gig became three gigs and three gigs became five gigs and all of a sudden it was all five or nothing with Ireland loving Garth. A shambles from the promoters and the GAA.

Nothing to do with the GAA at all! Promoters selling tickets for gigs without a license due to planning laws was pure stupidity.

breezy1985 · 10-05-2021 01:49PM

tadgho wrote: »

Nothing to do with the GAA at all! Promoters selling tickets for gigs without a license due to planning laws was pure stupidity.

I don't get the fight behind it whatsoever .Promoter was completely in the wrong

PTH2009 · 10-05-2021 01:49PM

tadgho wrote: »

Nothing to do with the GAA at all! Promoters selling tickets for gigs without a license due to planning laws was pure stupidity.

Yeah it was a **** up in that regard and he should go just been given his original 2 gigs and tough **** if fans couldn't get tickets. The Dublin council guy should of said 'ah lads 5/4 shows is OTT and they will not be permitted and don't put tickets on sale for them' but nope it got dragged out

Garth Brooks behaviour through it all was pathetic with some of this comments been outrageous. 'Come on Irish governer let's the people dance' , 'like having to choose between his children' etc

All these years He's still adiment to do the 5 Croke Park shows but he can't get it in his head it's not possible with our licensing laws

breezy1985 · 10-05-2021 01:53PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

Yeah it was a **** up in that regard and he should go just been given his original 2 gigs and tough **** if fans couldn't get tickets

Garth Brooks behaviour through it all was pathetic with some of this comments been outrageous. 'Come on Irish governer let's the people dance' , 'like having to choose between his children' etc

All these years He's still adiment to do the 5 Croke Park shows but he can't get it in his head it's not possible with our licensing laws

If he loves Ireland that much why doesn't he come back and play his 5 gigs all over the country.
Ide say he loved the controversy and there's no better advertising than getting debated in a parliament. Sales of his albums and official cowboy hats probably went through the roof thanks to all them fools running round acting like children in the ticket shops

PTH2009 · 10-05-2021 03:21PM

breezy1985 wrote: »

If he loves Ireland that much why doesn't he come back and play his 5 gigs all over the country.
Ide say he loved the controversy and there's no better advertising than getting debated in a parliament. Sales of his albums and official cowboy hats probably went through the roof thanks to all them fools running round acting like children in the ticket shops

Yeah and he made enough bucks from his tour by just doing places in the States. The hypercrete even done some mantee shows (although it would be a nightmare for an outdoor show). He could easily come over and do a few 3Arena shows or as you suggested tour the whole country like Bruce Springsteen and Ed Sheeran did

The Garth Brooks World Tour Grossings
2014: $51.0 million from 51 shows
2015: $114.9 million from 120 shows
2016: $97.0 million from 102 shows
2017: $101.4 million from 93 shows
Total available grossing: $364.3 million from 366 shows.

He then went on to a Stadium Tour in 2019

irishfeen · 10-05-2021 11:08PM

Love Reeling in the Years but just one question, do they intentionally leave out some big murder cases which would have been massive news for months?

Such cases as the Wayne O'Donoghue murder trial got no mention whatsoever AFAIK ... is this done on purpose to protect families I wonder?

breezy1985 · 10-05-2021 11:15PM

irishfeen wrote: »

Love Reeling in the Years but just one question, do they intentionally leave out some big murder cases which would have been massive news for months?

Such cases as the Wayne O'Donoghue murder trial got no mention whatsoever AFAIK ... is this done on purpose to protect families I wonder?

Hard to know. I think they might have had the scissor sisters murder on the show and definitely had all the murdering the priests and nuns done

L1011 · 10-05-2021 11:15PM

They very rarely cover that sort of content.

If it's something that has had future ramifications afterwards it goes in. Even a messy trial like that one mentioned doesn't really come up again after its over.

irishfeen · 10-05-2021 11:30PM

L1011 wrote: »

They very rarely cover that sort of content.

If it's something that has had future ramifications afterwards it goes in. Even a messy trial like that one mentioned doesn't really come up again after its over.

Thanks never really thought of it that way, I suppose they have to be very careful covering such trials.

coinop · 12-05-2021 04:38AM

Each year will hold a different significance for everyone, filled with personal triumphs and tragedies. Perhaps you remember a particular year for the time you got married, went off to college, had a wonderful holiday abroad, the birth of a child or even the more sorrowful events such as the death of a loved one. At the end of the day, RITY is just one RTE editor's idea of what constituted as a significant event that year. I'm personally baffled at some of the choices that were obviously shoe-horned in for politically correct reasons (women's camogie making the cut?

I bet even the players barely remember it) but some of the choices are very revealing of the bubble RTE staff operate in (the continual adoration of Obama being a prime example).

I agree with previous posters that the disappearance of the MH370 plane was a glaring omission. The whole Garth Brooks saga must have passed me by, as did most of the sports stories.

Declan A Walsh · 12-05-2021 08:35AM

coinop wrote: »

Each year will hold a different significance for everyone, filled with personal triumphs and tragedies. Perhaps you remember a particular year for the time you got married, went off to college, had a wonderful holiday abroad, the birth of a child or even the more sorrowful events such as the death of a loved one. At the end of the day, RITY is just one RTE editor's idea of what constituted as a significant event that year. I'm personally baffled at some of the choices that were obviously shoe-horned in for politically correct reasons (women's camogie making the cut? I bet even the players barely remember it) but some of the choices are very revealing of the bubble RTE staff operate in (the continual adoration of Obama being a prime example).

I agree with previous posters that the disappearance of the MH370 plane was a glaring omission. The whole Garth Brooks saga must have passed me by, as did most of the sports stories.

While I would agree with much of what you are saying, the Garth Brooks story was a big deal at the time. There was a bit of hysteria doing the rounds about going to see Garth Brooks. Many ticket holders were not of course genuine fans, although there were plenty of those around at the time too. Some saw it as an idea for a good night out, and the idea just caught on. So, when the whole sorry saga unraveled with planning permission issues, maximum number of concerts that could be held in Croke Park, and Garth's refusal to compromise, this was a major news story at the time. The fact that I could only name two songs by him off the top of my head, and maybe three if I thought about it, is neither here nor there. Or the fact that I had no interest in going to see him perform!

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