martingriff wrote: » Barak Obama been prophetic there
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.
L1011 wrote: » Looking at this, there's plenty therehttps://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.
Say Your Number wrote: » That Brooks thing was mental.
ongarite wrote: » Germany mauling Brazil was amazing!
HeidiHeidi wrote: » Anyone know if/when this is repeated? Sky box didn't record it this evening
breezy1985 wrote: » It goes up on the RTE player straight away
Shelga wrote: » So unbelievably mental! :pac: I don’t think I could name 2 of his songs!
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
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
Declan A Walsh wrote: » It was mentioned immediately before O'Driscoll retiring.
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.
Shelga wrote: » How the **** is the ice bucket challenge 7 years ago!
[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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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.