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First News Event you remember?

cyrusdvirus

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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wes

The first news event would be the Berlin wall coming down.

stovelid

gatecrash wrote: »

Apologies.

Mods, can you lock/merge please??

Don't mind the smart arses.

People are interested enough to post here aren't they?

W.Shakes-Beer

Jamie Bulger murder was about my earliest. I would have been 3 at the time and can just about remember my mam being in complete shock over it (as Jamie would have been the same age as me at the time)

My name is URL

I'm almost sure that I remember seeing news reports about the Chernobyl disaster.. even though I was only 2 and a half at the time =/

problemchimp

Decimalisation, '74 world cup, and constant shiit from the British army when visiting my cousins in South Armagh. (My Da getting pushed around and generally harassed by them, scared the craap out of me)

stealinhorses

Princess Diana's death.

Dyr

Probably the Hunger Strikes, interesting times

dark crystal

I remember watching Charles and Diana getting married in '81. Would have been about 5 at the time.

marcsignal

Americans leaving Vietnam, and pushing the helicopters over the side from Aircraft Carrier into the sea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5mo88-xjo

ScumLord

Breaking through on the Eurotunnel, I remember my mother saying some day someone will ask you where you were when they connected up the Eurotunnel an you'll have to say sitting in front of the TV in your jammies. That day has finally come mother, god help us all.

Dyr

MCMLXXV wrote: »

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:

I remember lining up somewhere in santry for him with me cheap plastic pope flag. His timekeeping left a lot to be desired I can tell ya.

My little brother developed a pope obsession after his visit. :eek:

Dyr

mrsdewinter wrote: »

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

The shinners or whoever used to be organised into H-Block committees used to come around in a flat back truck with a fella delivering an address over a megaphone and another lad wrapped in a blanket portraying a hunger striker. I thought he was a real hunger striker and I couldn't figure out why:

A) They did'nt give him some sandwiches

They were gonna send him back to the H Blocks

Strange times

Sergeant

Chernobyl disaster was the first event I remember clearly. I was 6 at the time, and remember the news report, and our teacher talking about it in school.

Lots of vague memories from the same time of Garret FitzGerald and Charlie Haughey.

Also remember the murders of two British soldiers, who drove down into the path of a funeral procession of an IRA man. The photograph on the front of the paper of the two naked bodies lying there on the road was really stark and harrowing.

Minstrel27

The earliest that I clearly remember was the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife.

Killer Pigeon

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Seachmall

Sonia O' Sullivan in the 2000 Olympics, I was 9 watching it that morning.

dfx-

The Millennium celebrations in 1987/1988

marcsignal

Minstrel27 wrote: »

The earliest that I clearly remember was the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife.

Christmas 1989, I remember at the time, Penneys had a Christmas ad with a jingle that went:

"Penneys, got a whole lot of things for Christmas, for you and the family"

and the joke going around was:

"Ceaușescu, got a hole in the head for Christmas, and so did his family"

NSFW - Graphic !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0NWFEC_6E

Laois_Man

Very vague memorieos of stuff like the John Lennon assasination and Bobby Sands' death, the Charles/Di wedding.

The first real thing I can remember clearly is the Kerry babies scandal

sunflower27

I just remember general stories on 'gorilla' warfare :rolleyes::p

I also remember Australia winning the American Cup:

The 1983 America's Cup was the occasion of the first winning challenge to the New York Yacht Club who had successfully defended the cup over a period of 132 years. An Australian syndicate representing the Royal Perth Yacht Club won the match races to win the America's Cup which ended the longest winning streak in sporting history.

I remember being so excited and having to go to school where everyone was talking about it

AnonoBoy

I remember a lot of football and all of the '86 World Cup but the first proper 'news story' I remember was probably when they caught Dessie O'Hare for kidnapping that dentist in 1987.

I remember being in the car on the way to Dublin and it came on the radio. I remember being told by my Mam how they'd cut off the dentists fingers and her saying it was good he'd been caught because they were a worthless bunch of terrorists who did not represent the people of Ireland.

Stuck with me so it did.

So in conclusion...

Mexico '86 - Yay!
The INLA - what a bunch of c*nts.

problemchimp

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I remember a lot of football and all of the '86 World Cup but the first proper 'news story' I remember was probably when they caught Dessie O'Hare for kidnapping that dentist in 1987.

I remember being in the car on the way to Dublin and it came on the radio. I remember being told by my Mam how they'd cut off the dentists fingers and here saying it was good he'd been caught because the IRA were a worthless bunch of terrorists who did not represent the people of Ireland.

Stuck with me so it did.

So in conclusion... The IRA - what a bunch of c*nts.[/QUOTE
I.N.L.A.

mike65

Tiede Herrema kidnapping I think (as that went on so long).

Richard Hillman

Im not sure what it was but i remember a big street party. It was either for the Dublin millenium celebration, Euro 88 or Italia 90. Thinking back on it, its a massive shame that we dont have the community spirit anymore to have a street party like that again.

aoife_bennett

Princess Diana dying. I was five, and I heard about it while sitting in the car with my Dad going to town.

mars411

London Bombings. I was 11 and was going there the following week on a family hoilday.

chasm

Elvis dying, 1977, i was 4 and myself and my sister had a little transistor radio tied to the end of the bunk bed and when it was announced on the radio i ran in to tell my parents. Not sure if they were more shocked that he had died or that i knew who he was!

The Highwayman

JP II coming in 1979.

deman

stovelid wrote: »

Don't mind the smart arses.

People are interested enough to post here aren't they?

I'm a smartarse because I pointed out that this thread was already done? And I was wrong as I said 2 weeks ago. In fact, it was only 3 days between the last post there and this new thread.

skylight1987

The very first news event was princess dianas wedding. Also the guy who killed a nurse in the Phoenix Park and then shot a farmer , cant think of his name, he was found in the director generals house, anyway while he was at large i was very scared and couldnt sleep.Oh and there was an asteriod falling to earth '83 or '84 i think it ended up in the indian ocean i remember RTE reporting that too