First News Event you remember?

cyrusdvirus · 2011-09-06 07:13:25

Going on from the Where were you questions being asked about Sept 11 2001, what is the first 'News Event' you remember where you were etc? For me I think it was the Space Shuttle Challenger blowing up in January 86. Will always remember being in the local shop buying milk or something and Radio 2 being on, and they cut…

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Going on from the Where were you questions being asked about Sept 11 2001, what is the first 'News Event' you remember where you were etc?

For me I think it was the Space Shuttle Challenger blowing up in January 86. Will always remember being in the local shop buying milk or something and Radio 2 being on, and they cut into the middle of a song to announce it.

I think the next major event i remember was the Herald of Free Enterprise sinking off Zeebrugge. I think that was the first time i ever watched something happen live where i KNEW people were dying, and i was safe at home. It was a cold night that night too.

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#3 06-09-2011 08:19AM

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Can't think of a specific one but I do seem to remember hearing about a "punishment beating" on BBCNI every morning around 8.30 before going to bed. Naturally in my mind the term made it sound justified and I was a bit older before I understood while it was newsworthy.

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Does the aftermath of winning that penalty shootout in Italy 90 count? I remember watching the news of all the celebrations.

After that I guess the Diana car crash. Maybe something in between if someone reminds me.

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Wasn't this done just a couple of weeks ago? Deja vu!

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Brighton Bombing. '84 I think.

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princess diana.
i was nine, i really thought i would be able to remember stuff before that.

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The first invasion of Iraq.

I was in the sitting room watching it on the telly.

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Berlin wall coming down in '89, I was 6 or 7 and remember watching people hit it with hammers on the TV at night time and all I was thinking was ''silly Germans you should use a bulldozer for that'' I had no idea what it was about.

Also first gulf war in '90 and my mother worried that we had the Americans on one side and the soviet union on the other and that Shannon was a target for both should some drama kick off.

Also fall of Soviet Union in '91

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The day Bobby Sands died.

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pow wow wrote: »

Nelson Mandela being released from prison.

Same as that, but mainly because we got the day off school (I lived in Johannesburg).

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The day the Pope was shot. It was the first time I can remember a TV program being interupted suddenly on RTE and then the words NEWS FLASH appeared.

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gatecrash wrote: »

Going on from the Where were you questions being asked about Sept 11 2001, what is the first 'News Event' you remember where you were etc?

For me I think it was the Space Shuttle Challenger blowing up in January 86. Will always remember being in the local shop buying milk or something and Radio 2 being on, and they cut into the middle of a song to announce it.

I think the next major event i remember was the Herald of Free Enterprise sinking off Zeebrugge. I think that was the first time i ever watched something happen live where i KNEW people were dying, and i was safe at home. It was a cold night that night too.

I remember running home from primary school to see the first shuttle go up. Missed the bloody thing of course. Then...Live Aid, and I think a protest about oranges at Dunnes Stores. South African.

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Pope John Paul visiting Ireland in I think it was 1979 - I was four. 1,000,000 people turned out to see him in the Phoenix Park, i.e. 1/3 of the population! :eek::eek::eek:

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Bobby Sands dying.
It was big news up in County Derry! (especially as my home village had 2 lads on the strike as well)
I was about 4 at the time!

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I can vaguely remember the Hillsborough disaster

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IRA stuff. Bombings and blanket/dirty protests in the 70's. Just the general images and memories of the time.

Also a plane crash in the canaries around 79 or 80 as our neighbours died in it.

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I vaguely remember Winston Churchill dying , the kids radio hour was cancelled .

But really the first one that I really remember was Biafra , Blue Peter ( Kids TV programme ) did a load about it , I think they may have had an appeal at the time.

I think News Round is a great addition to the TV schedule for kids

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Live Aid, I remember my Mother proudly pointing out Bob Geldof, they were showing footage of him in some African counrty in a group of children and he was bending down shaking his long straggly hair so they could grab it, I thought he was a really nice, fun looking man. My Mother told me he was a saint! I was only 3!

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A newborn baby found in a lane stabbed with knitting needles.
I was 8 at the time and my mom was pregnant, and I remember crying myself to sleep when I heard that.

Also, Jamie Bulger.

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looky loo wrote: »

The day Bobby Sands died.

Not neccesarily the day he died, but i remember the hunger strikes and all the protests and so on that went with them. I would have been maybe 6 or 7 at the time

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The hunger strikes. And thirty years on, I've never managed to shake the feeling of 'wtf'.

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deman wrote: »

Wasn't this done just a couple of weeks ago? Deja vu!

yup. done
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055961360&page=11

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#31 06-09-2011 11:13AM

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Apologies.

Mods, can you lock/merge please??

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