Reeling in your years.

lazygal · 09-08-2012 08:18PM #1

I love Reeling in the Years. My favourite ones are the 1990s episodes, because I remember so much from that decade.

Stand out moments from the 1990s for good and bad are:
Italia 90
Mary Robinson getting elected
Northern Ireland peace process
Bill Clinton's visits to Ireland
Tony Blair getting into power and the whole New Labour thing

What stands out from what decade for AH-ers?

galwayrush · 09-08-2012 08:19PM

Katie Taylor, 9th august 2012.

later12 · 09-08-2012 08:20PM

This. Mainly because it's happening again.

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

I_smell_fear · 09-08-2012 08:21PM

You know shít went down when Albatross by Fleetwood Mac comes on Reeling In The Years

Professey Chin · 09-08-2012 08:22PM

later12 wrote: »

This. Mainly because it's happening again.

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

Never noticed the phrasing in that before.
"Another generation turns its back on Ireland"
Up yours RTE

girl in the striped socks · 09-08-2012 08:34PM

I can't remember the name of the programme, it could have been a prime time special.
Anyway there was a man on it, mid thirties, dark hair & wearing glasses. There was a mobile camera unit thing that you could go up to & say where you were going, why you were going etc.
This man starts getting emotional & is telling the camera how he doesn't know when he will get to see his elderly parents again, nieces, nephews. That he didnt want to leave ireland but har no other choice. My heart went out to him.
This was only on a few months ago but I often think of him & wonder how he's getting on.

Does anyone know who I'm on about or can they find it on you tube?

SocSocPol · 09-08-2012 08:45PM

Live Aid 1985
Self Aid 1986

MrStuffins · 09-08-2012 08:47PM

I'll always remember 1999

it was when they first aired my favourite show, Reeling in the Years.

Oh the memories!

Ghandee · 09-08-2012 08:50PM

I'll never forget the tsunami of 2004.

That was a tragedy my friends.

So many people lost their lives, i watched in disbelief knowing I'd been in Thailand a few months previous.

GerM · 09-08-2012 08:52PM

1989: Fall of apartheid, Hillsborough, end of Cold War, fall of Communism with reform and revolution across eastern Europe, Tianamen Square, Guildford Four released, Ireland qualify for first WC and Berlin Wall is torn down.

Where To · 09-08-2012 08:52PM

1987

Emmerdale Farm

Jackie Merrick fell into an old mine shaft trying to rescue sheep.

Galwayguy35 · 09-08-2012 08:54PM

September 29 2008

The day the dream ended for the Irish

Bad Panda · 09-08-2012 08:56PM

1995.

Just because it was a summer whereby you woke up and you just knew the weather was going to be good. You could plan a day at the beach a few days in advance without worrying!

ScumLord · 09-08-2012 08:57PM

Windows 95.

galwayrush wrote: »

Katie Taylor, 9th august 2012.

I wonder how long we'll have to listen to people gushing over Katie. I like boxing and she is class but I had to injure endure Ryan Tubridy rattle on about how much of a saint she is coming home from Dublin this morning in the car (I doubt he has the slightest interest in boxing) and he's just ruined it for me.

Katie is a legend but I almost felt sorry for her having all that pressure on her during the fight.

senorwipesalot · 09-08-2012 08:57PM

In the mid eighties when the british gutter press first went on sale here with their Page 3 lovlies.
Oh the mammaries.

Mr Benevolent · 09-08-2012 09:01PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

September 29 2008

The day the dream ended for the Irish

Why, did you bow out of the Porn Olympics with a punctured knob?

Galwayguy35 · 09-08-2012 09:03PM

Confab wrote: »

Why, did you bow out of the Porn Olympics with a punctured knob?

I could give you a proper answer but it might be too much for your single brain cell.

Ziegfeldgirl27 · 09-08-2012 09:05PM

I was born in 1988 but the best episodes of reeling in the years are the 1960s ones!! Can't get enough of them. Don't like the modern ones so much.

BornToKill · 09-08-2012 09:12PM

ScumLord wrote: »

I like boxing and she is class but I had to injure Ryan Tubridy

Was he badly injured? Fair play to you anyway. I hope you don't get charged over it now.

ScumLord · 09-08-2012 09:14PM

BornToKill wrote: »

Was he badly injured? Fair play to you anyway. I hope you don't get charged over it now.

They just used a bit of wood glue to put him back together, he's fine.

AlmightyCushion · 09-08-2012 09:17PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Windows 95.

I wonder how long we'll have to listen to people gushing over Katie. I like boxing and she is class but I had to injure Ryan Tubridy rattle on about how much of a saint she is coming home from Dublin this morning in the car (I doubt he has the slightest interest in boxing) and he's just ruined it for me.

Katie is a legend but I almost felt sorry for her having all that pressure on her during the fight.

I hope that isn't a typo.

cml387 · 09-08-2012 09:21PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Windows 95.

I wonder how long we'll have to listen to people gushing over Katie. I like boxing and she is class but I had to injure endure Ryan Tubridy rattle on about how much of a saint she is coming home from Dublin this morning in the car (I doubt he has the slightest interest in boxing) and he's just ruined it for me.

Katie is a legend but I almost felt sorry for her having all that pressure on her during the fight.

Oh how I agree with that. It was absolutely awful and if I never heard the name Katie Taylor again it would be too soon.

Still, then I watched the fight and my heart melted..go girl.

Oh the topic. The seventies, definitely. If there was any colour in the newsreel film, wasn;t everything so ..brown

Sunnyisland · 09-08-2012 09:26PM

I love reeling in the years and there is a song/music of every year that brings back memories.

Lapin · 09-08-2012 10:38PM

Best thing on RTÉ.

I don't care how often they repeat it, I'll watch it again and again.

Two incidents that most stand out for me both stem from 1981. One of the most fúcked years in this nation's history.

The scenes of the Stardust fire still send a shiver down my spine whenever I see them.

And I always PMSL whenever I see Albert Reynolds in James Bond mode trying to sort out the Aer Lingus hijacking.

ChunkyLover54 · 10-08-2012 12:01AM

I thought the 90's series was good because I could remember/half-remember all of it.

My favourite is the 80's series though....fascinating decade

crapmanjoe · 10-08-2012 01:49AM

Is there any place online you can watch these shows or order the box set or something.

Love the show

Cookie_Monster · 10-08-2012 01:52AM

The only good series RTE have every made.

Cookie_Monster · 10-08-2012 01:53AM

crapmanjoe wrote: »

Is there any place online you can watch these shows or order the box set or something.

Love the show

you can buy it on the rte site, I have 70,80 and 90 from them

seamus · 10-08-2012 09:44AM

This decade and the last are probably the ones which will stand out most for me, I'd say. I was a child in the 80's, and a self-obsessed teenager in the 90's. So the true impact of any major events during those times was lost on me. I don't even remember hearing about the Good Friday agreement, such was my lack of giving a ****.

Italia '90 and USA '94 are about the only "big" things I remember from the 90's, purely because I had fun watching them. I remember the first Iraq war, but only because it got so much coverage. From my point of view it was "just another war", and I didn't even know who was fighting in it.

It was only going into my twenties that I started paying attention to world events and understanding their implications.

Ghandee · 10-08-2012 10:03AM

seamus wrote: »

This decade and the last are probably the ones which will stand out most for me, I'd say. I was a child in the 80's, and a self-obsessed teenager in the 90's. So the true impact of any major events during those times was lost on me. I don't even remember hearing about the Good Friday agreement, such was my lack of giving a ****.

Italia '90 and USA '94 are about the only "big" things I remember from the 90's, purely because I had fun watching them. I remember the first Iraq war, but only because it got so much coverage. From my point of view it was "just another war", and I didn't even know who was fighting in it.

It was only going into my twenties that I started paying attention to world events and understanding their implications.

Dont hate me for this Seamus, I've imagined you to be much older than this lol?

If, for no other reason than the mature and level headedness of ypur posts.

I'm guessing your in your mid 30's, for some reason I imagined a decade older.

seamus · 10-08-2012 10:04AM

I'm 30, and I'm not offended

For all intents and purposes, the rest of the world really only started existing for me in the year 2000.

Reeling in your years.

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