The first news story that got to you?

Cullen82 · 28-07-2010 09:13PM

AgileMyth wrote: »

September 11th is the one that springs to mind.

+1

Never felt as much emotion or disbelief as I did watching this unfold. Standing on Dawson Street outside where I was working at the time with everyone crowded around the TV shop window.

Horror

punchdrunk · 28-07-2010 09:15PM

watching challenger explode on launch,live on TV when I was 5
it really effected me

HalloweenJack · 28-07-2010 09:16PM

I remember Ayrton Senna dying. I was six.

That had a pretty big effect on me. It stuck in my mind for a long time afterwards.

I don't know why.

jessiejam · 28-07-2010 09:21PM

The first real one I can remember was jamie bulger. It still upsets me to this day.
Second was the jessica and holly incident in the UK
And then the madaline mc cann story

Always tuned in for the news for these stories.

Pity 2 of the stories had a horrible ending
Heres hoping the third will be better

Feeona · 28-07-2010 09:23PM

John Lennon getting shot

Mushy · 28-07-2010 09:32PM

Prob Princess Diana. Nothing like turning on Soccer AM to be told she had died. Tell parents and I lost the tv for a week. Think I was like 6/7.

beks101 · 28-07-2010 09:50PM

The Omagh bombing particularly got to me. I was about thirteen at the time.

I remember about a year on watching a tribute Late Late Show where they interviewed Michael Grimes, a man who had lost his wife, his heavily pregnant daughter and his 18-month old granddaughter in the blast. He had been waiting to welcome his wife home with flowers when he got the news. That interview and his heartache and the sheer sorrow of the whole incident haunted me for ages after that.

I remember as a child seeing Mary Robinson on the news during a visit to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. I just remember in the news package she was holding a young emaciated orphaned child and she was crying. It really moved me at the time and I've been a huge admirer of hers ever since.

ejmaztec · 28-07-2010 09:52PM

Mushy wrote: »

Prob Princess Diana. Nothing like turning on Soccer AM to be told she had died. Tell parents and I lost the tv for a week. Think I was like 6/7.

That's very sad.:(

thebigleap · 28-07-2010 09:52PM

The disapperance of six year old Mary Boyle in 1977. It was the first time I realized that children could be taken or hurt by others. It's been thirty-three years and no trace of her has ever been found.

The Stardust fire in 1981 was horrible; the images of the young people trapped in the restrooms, screaming to get out is hard to forget.

Skinback · 28-07-2010 09:55PM

Sitting in front of our black and white telly watching the newsflash about the death of JFK.

Michellenman · 28-07-2010 09:56PM

The first that really got to me wasn't on the news, it was a documentary that RTE did about child orphans in Russia. They showed that due to lack of resources and money all children had to have their tonsils removed to prevent infection which would need medication. The kids had to have them cut out without any anesthetic, weren't prepared for it and had their arms and legs tied to a chair and their head held in place by someone else for the whole procedure. I still have images of that burned in to my brain.

News story would be the abduction case of Millie Dowler and the abduction and subsequently the murder cases of Holly wells and Jessica Chapman.

easyeason3 · 28-07-2010 09:57PM

tdot wrote: »

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

Jesus you just brought back a memory for me there.

I remember watching it as a child just before I went to bed, I had very responsible parents. I must have only been 5 or 6 at the time & I remember it was kinda windy on that night. So every time the wind took up a bit I thought it was the fighter jets coming to bomb us.

I was too scared to call out to anyone & I was too scared to get out of bed. So I just lay there in the dark absolutely terrified.

Mollywolly · 28-07-2010 09:57PM

http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/aberfandisaster.htm

This was the very first one for me, back in 1966. Most of you won't even have been born then :eek:

I remember it being on the news then the following day at school we were all asked to say a special prayer for the people who had died. Very sad

More recently there was the bombing in Warrington, UK where two children died. I lived there at the time and I still go a bit wobbly if it's ever mentioned on the news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/dates/stories/march/20/newsid_2544000/2544121.stm

df1985 · 28-07-2010 10:09PM

italia 90, i was 4 going on 5 but its one of my first very clear memories, the whole country at a standstill. Being brought to the hitchin post pub in leixlip (now a lidl) to watch the romania game, sat on the ground hyper on club orange!

I remember the morning I woke up to hear diana had died.

9/11 is the one i will always remember the exact circumstances of how i heard. Older generations like my parents always know where they were when they heard about jfk. i think 9/11 is the equivalent for my generation.

Kooli · 28-07-2010 10:11PM

The first time I had that genuine emotional response to a news story was the Hillsborough disaster. I was totally freaked out by it, it really affected me.

jester77 · 28-07-2010 10:13PM

The border fox chopping off that lads fingers and sending them in the post to the church

Rockn · 28-07-2010 10:18PM

I was going to say no news story really fazes me; another war, another bombing, another killing, another earthquake - meh; but actually 9-11 was probably the one thing I saw on the news where I sat up and thought "what the hell? That's mental." That and man falling on ice.

OutlawPete · 28-07-2010 10:26PM

The news that Elvis was dead .. in 1981.

I cried for hours.

I was eight and had just watched King Creole and Frankie and Johnnie back to back.

I asked my parents who Elvis was and could I see him if him sometime.

They told me he died four years previous and I ran out and jumped on my bike and cycled and cried and cycled and cried for what seemed like forever.

pablomakaveli · 28-07-2010 10:32PM

September is probably the first news story i remember that really shocked me. I remember coming out of scholl and my mother told me a plane had crashed into a building in New York. When i got home it was on all the tv channels.

It was pretty scary watching it all unfold before our eyes like that.

drdeadlift · 28-07-2010 10:34PM

af447 going amiss

df1985 · 28-07-2010 10:37PM

you can watch the news bulletins as they happened of 9/11 on youtube. all the major channels are on it CNN/FOX/ABC etc. It really captures the confusion and sheer shock america went through that day.

astra2000 · 28-07-2010 10:38PM

watching footage of nelson mandella been freed and the collapse of the berlin wall and live aid all very memorable.

The Big Red Button · 28-07-2010 10:38PM

It's interesting how almost all of the posts so far have involved horrible tragic events rather than happy events ... and also how, for most people (including me), the first stories they remember affecting them as children involve other children (e.g. Dunblane, Jamie Bolger, etc.)

del88 · 28-07-2010 10:39PM

[FONT=arial,helvetica]The Challenger shuttle disaster[/FONT].......Came home from football training aged 12....cried with the mammy..

Sea Sharp · 28-07-2010 10:41PM

Bill Clinton getting blown by Monica Lewinsky.

Dudess · 28-07-2010 10:43PM

The Ethiopia famine in 1984 when I was six, which led to Band Aid and Live Aid. It was the first news story I actually paid attention to. I remember it extremely clearly.

UpCork · 28-07-2010 10:44PM

Dunblane for me as well.

I don't remember much about it, but it did have an impact on me.

I think I was in 5th or 6th class in primary at the time. We used to have to 'mind' the younger children in the morning and at break time.

I remember going to school after it happened and the class I was 'minding' for that term were the youngest children in the school and I just remember thinking 'what if it happened here'.

I wouldn't say the death of Princess Diana had an effect on me, but it was the first 'I'll always remember where I was' events that occurred in my life. I suppose from that perspective I was interested in it as Mum had always spoken about similar experiences with the death of Elvis and John F Kennedy.

September 11th also impacted upon me. I was an adult then: it was the night of the debs and the day after I registered for my first day at college. I couldn't then and still cannot now comprehend the extent of the carnage that was committed. Everytime I get on a plane I start thinking 'what must those people have felt like', then I have to block it out or I'd never go on a plane again.

Actually, just as I posted this message, I thought I do remember Brian Keenan being released from captivity. I can't say I remember the whole story but I remember seeing it on the news and seeing my family get emotional over it.

entrep · 28-07-2010 10:45PM

i think prob all sex abuse stories when i was about 12-ish. there was a lot of abuse stories in the papers at this time (late 90s).

i'm an abuse survivor, and i think it was through reading so many stories in the papers that i started to identify that that was what happened to me.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 28-07-2010 10:50PM

For me it was the last months & days of the war in Vietnam and the American withdrawal. Followed closely by the arrival of the Vietnam boat people to our shores.

Then years later and the first time I was under artillary fire and thinking it was just like the old news reels from Vietnam!.

_Kaz_ · 28-07-2010 10:50PM

Diana, I think. Around ten at the time. It's the only one coming back to me anyway.

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