The first news story that got to you?

Paco Rodriguez · 2010-07-28 19:16:55

Was remembering the times as a young teenager, having to switch the channel as my parents wanted to watch the news. And you would see whatever was happening in the world and not give a damn what was happening. What was the first event that you can remember that triggered some emotion in you? Mine was the Kursk tragedy. I…

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Was remembering the times as a young teenager, having to switch the channel as my parents wanted to watch the news. And you would see whatever was happening in the world and not give a damn what was happening.
What was the first event that you can remember that triggered some emotion in you?

Mine was the Kursk tragedy. I just imagined being inside it, hammering on the door trying to get someone to help, using up the last amount of air available to you, seeing your comrades struggling too....and then the rescue divers, especially when they first managed to open the hatch, what it must be like going through those dark corridors, waiting to see what corpse your light would shine on.

I would have been 18....so i guess i was a cold basterd before then. I guess, 9/11 was just too extreme to comprehend for me back then.

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#2 28-07-2010 08:18PM

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Jamie Bolger, I'd say I was around 10 at the time but that was the first time I'd go to the paper interested in what was happening

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AIDS got to me pretty quick..

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andrei chikatilo, that russian serial killer - i must've been like 4 or 5, it was thrilling stuff.

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First Philip Cairns and this little boy who was murdered in Rathcoole,The young girl who was murdered in fettercarin when i was 10.Starving children in Africa, Somalia Kosova,Bosnia.
Every story hits me,there is so many.

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The Dr Neary scandal and the more recent miscarriage thing freaked me out. Orla Tinsley and the cystic fibrosis thing too, its just infuriating and so sad they can't get the services they need.

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Realising that santy and the tooth fairy didnt exist. Awesome news story.

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Pope Benedict wrote: »

The Fr Brendan Smyth abuse story. The man has done untold damage.

still didn't fcuking sack him, did you?

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http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055977419

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The Gulf war. Skuds, Saddam and so on. had me watching the news alot.

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September 11th is the one that springs to mind.

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I guess the first one I remember where I started watching the news to follow it was the Stardust tragedy.

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Always been interested, but Princess Diana dying and then 9/11 were the two that hit me the most.

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Lousie Woodward, the baby shaker. Remeber getting up early in the morning to watch sky news, seem to remeber been glued to "breaking News....", the first time I remember them doing that as well, 24 hour coverage. Sadly can't actually remember the outcome tho.
I do remember my sister writing to her tho, to say that she was fully behind her and 'knew she didnt do it', She hadnt the price of a stamp and never got to post it, and hasnt lived it down since.:D She was only bout 14 at the time.

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Columbine massacre then 9/11 then Saddam getting found,the reactions of the older people around me at the time were brilliant.

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Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Dunblayne.

That got me as well, i remember a lot of things from the 70's, but Dunblayne really hit a very strong chord.:(

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For some reason the most vivid one was when I was 9 when Freddie Mercury died....they did a tribute to him on BBC and I remember asking my mum how he died and she told me that he got AIDS from kissing and I remember being really scared as I had kissed my first boy on the lips that day!

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Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon.

I was small but I remember watching, I dont know whether it was live on rte or just on the news.

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This one always gets me.

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bazmaiden wrote: »

This one always gets me.

+1
I love that i can still manage to laugh at this even after seeing it a hundred times.

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#28 28-07-2010 08:56PM

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bazmaiden wrote: »

This one always gets me.

Whats wrong with me that i crack up every time I see that?

:pac:

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#29 28-07-2010 09:01PM

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the gulf war, i think.

i always remember this, even though it didnt get to me/upset me in any way: on the sunday morning that news of princess diana's death broke, one of the sunday papers had an article about whether she would ever marry dodi fayed entitled "it's do or die for di and dodi"

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the War in Biafra (1968) and the Landing on the Moon (1969) when I was 11/12yrs respectively.

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