Reeling In The Years

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.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup wrote: »

You're talking trout. Garth Brooks fiasco was everywhere for the bones of 2 months, no way you missed it. I remember at the time, garth brooks and water charges were on the news seemingly every night.

Blisterman wrote: »

Anyone else find the choice of musical performances to be a bit odd this series? Every episode has at least 1 or 2 quite long clips of some singer songwriter performing quite bland music on the late late show or something like it.
At least in previous years, there was usually something visually interesting about the performances, to make it worth showing.

On the plus side, at least they've stopped including a long section about the Eurovision in every single episode.

Say Your Number wrote: »

So next week

Euro 2016
Olympics
Pokemon Go

Can't remember a whole lot else happening.......