What is the first big news story you remember seeing on TV?

stefan idiot jones · 11-09-2013 09:09AM

foxinsox wrote: »

1977 I think it was.

Elvis dying..

Same for me. Christ, I'm old.

IvyTheTerrible · 11-09-2013 09:12AM

Chernobyl and the Challenger disaster. They interrupted Bosco with a newsflash about Challenger.

Hoop66 · 11-09-2013 09:56AM

As I said in another thread, the moon landings in 1969. I wasn't allowed to stay up for the actual landings as they were too late at night.

I remember sitting in front of the TV waiting for them to come back though. The TV showed pretty much nothing but grey sky and sea. I thought it was boring...

Sleepy · 11-09-2013 10:05AM

Freddie Mercury announcing he had AIDS and dying a couple of days later. I'd loved Queen since watching Live Aid all day with my dad (and was let stay up past my bedtime to see a bit more at the age of 5).

Though I remember the IRA kidnapping of John O'Grady in 1987 which was a lot earlier (as I'd have been around 7), it had less impact on me other than to make me realise that the IRA were "bad guys".

Dyr · 11-09-2013 10:15AM

Sleepy wrote: »

Though I remember the IRA kidnapping of John O'Grady in 1987 which was a lot earlier (as I'd have been around 7), it had less impact on me other than to make me realise that the IRA were "bad guys".

Except that was the INLA, obviously your hysteria about provos had established itself at an early age

Earliest I remember is probably the hunger strikes, the miners strike was a big one for me as a kid

SeaFields · 11-09-2013 10:17AM

Hillsborough disaster. Remember my dad sitting down to watch the match and it all unfolded. Scary stuff.

Richard Hillman · 11-09-2013 10:18AM

Probably World Cup 1990 and then the fall of the Soviet Union.

Sleepy · 11-09-2013 10:18AM

Bambi wrote: »

Except that was the INLA, obviously your hysteria about provos had established itself at an early age

As I pointed out, I was 7.

But then again, I've never really drawn much distinction between the various factions of Republican terrorists on this island. Peoples Front of Judea versus Judean People's Front etc.

K-9 · 11-09-2013 10:18AM

Bambi wrote: »

Except that was the INLA, obviously your hysteria about provos had established itself at an early age

Earliest I remember is probably the hunger strikes, the miners strike was a big one for me as a kid

I can vaguely remember Brixton though it could have been another one, BBC News news just seemed to always be about strikes during that time!

JoeA3 · 11-09-2013 10:20AM

The Zeebrugge ferry disaster sticks out in my earliest memories of "big news" for some reason...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/zeebrugge-disaster-25-years-on-752501

FloatingVoter · 11-09-2013 10:22AM

Fuzzy memories of John Paul I dying. I remember thinking the Ayatollah Khomeini was both the oldest man in the world and possibly Santa Claus. Reagan and JP2 getting shot are clear newsflash memories.

A.Partridge · 11-09-2013 10:22AM

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

Same for me. Christ, I'm old.

Not as old as I am.

The first big news item I remember seeing on TV was the assassination/funeral of JFK in 1963.

I was 4.

carol clery · 11-09-2013 10:27AM

For me it was probably the plane crash in Emerdale

Never Forget....

paddy147 · 11-09-2013 10:29AM

Zig & Zag were going back to Planet Zog for good.

That was a very sad day for me,so it was.

SEPT 23 1989 · 11-09-2013 10:31AM

Heysel May 85

gramar · 11-09-2013 10:31AM

I remember that dentist who was kidnapped by Dessie O' Hare and who had the tips of his little fingers chopped off. Dessie O' Hare was like the boogeyman back then for kids.

Jhcx · 11-09-2013 10:32AM

I'd Have to say the first one has to be 9/11.. just been reading about it ever since. today's the 12th anniversary.

SEPT 23 1989 · 11-09-2013 10:32AM

gramar wrote: »

I remember that dentist who was kidnapped by Dessie O' Hare and who had the tips of his little fingers chopped off. Dessie O' Hare was like the boogeyman back then for kids.

He was hiding in every village in the country:D

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 11-09-2013 10:36AM

I don't remember seeing the omagh bombing on tv but I remember that day surprisingly clearly. Off the top of my head 23rd of August? It was a Saturday, I was staying in my aunties house and we had gone shopping for my cousins cot, and when the radio in the car was turned on, it was all about the bombs. I was nine years old.

The one I remember on tv was 9-11. Was in 1st year, few days into secondary school. Came home about half three and put on the tv to catch a rerun of coronation street and there was just photos of the twin towers with smoke billowing out of them. I think it had just happened and we had no idea what was going on, there was nobody talking over the footage for ages.

donegal__road · 11-09-2013 10:38AM

foxinsox wrote: »

1977 I think it was.

Elvis dying..

me too

walrusgumble · 11-09-2013 10:42AM

London & Manchester IRA Bombings, worrying about my relations around 1993.

Still remember what I was doing, what the weather was like, how I learnt about New York 9/11. Auld fella taped all of the news coverage (why??)

Fine Gael taking over from Albert Reynolds in 1993-1994

Rep of Ireland supporters shot in Derry pub after Alan McLoughlin's goal that sent us to USA 1994

Red Kev · 11-09-2013 10:47AM

foxinsox wrote: »

1977 I think it was.

Elvis dying..

Yep, first thing I thought of when I saw the title. That was 1977 and the first time I ever saw my mother cry. I instinctively thought of the Jonestown Massacre and John Paul I dying as well, but a quick google says that was 1978. I remember seeing a lot of footage of Pol Pot's terror in Cambodia, and although that was 75-79 I think most of the publicity here came in 78 and 79.

First World Cup I remember vividly was 1978 as well, I loved the Argentinian shirt and the long haired Jesus look-a-like Mario Kempes and so duly supported them.

walrusgumble · 11-09-2013 10:48AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I don't remember seeing the omagh bombing on tv but I remember that day surprisingly clearly. Off the top of my head 23rd of August? It was a Saturday, I was staying in my aunties house and we had gone shopping for my cousins cot, and when the radio in the car was turned on, it was all about the bombs. I was nine years old.

The one I remember on tv was 9-11. Was in 1st year, few days into secondary school. Came home about half three and put on the tv to catch a rerun of coronation street and there was just photos of the twin towers with smoke billowing out of them. I think it had just happened and we had no idea what was going on, there was nobody talking over the footage for ages.

Omagh was 15th August 1998 , I think.the hurling was mighty . A week later, Clare were out playing against Offally (not sure whether is was the first contraversial game or second)

Dunblaine Massacre 1993ish

Yeah 9/11. coming in from school, nice weather. A mate , who mitched school that day texting "holy **** its the end of the world) (Nokia 3310 phones!) . I laughing thinking he was on drugs, switch over to Sky News and thought holy ****, and wondered how come foreigners never had succeed or tried to do America - think America was at war with Afghanistan at the time since Clinton (I kind of thought it was a Timothy Mc Veigh thing ie internal job)

pajor · 11-09-2013 10:51AM

Diana.

Even as a 6/7 year old I wondered why it was on the news for weeks and weeks after..

John Mason · 11-09-2013 11:14AM

The Star Dust fire. Bosco was interrupted with a news flash

sbsquarepants · 11-09-2013 11:19AM

Probably the hunger strikes is the first big one I can remember, I would have been around 6 or 7 at the time.

Dyr · 11-09-2013 11:21AM

Sleepy wrote: »

As I pointed out, I was 7.

But then again, I've never really drawn much distinction between the various factions of Republican terrorists on this island. Peoples Front of Judea versus Judean People's Front etc.

As you pointed out you were 7 but then you never grew out of it?

frag420 · 11-09-2013 11:45AM

Dessie what's his face cutting the fingers of that dentist.

The border cūnt I believe he was called!!

doubledown · 11-09-2013 11:48AM

I remember being pulled out of class to watch the Columbia shuttle launch in 1981. The whole primary school was crowded into one small room to watch it on a tiny black & white tv.

I feel very old all of a sudden...

And that dentist who was kidnapped was called John O'Grady and he's my dentist now!

krudler · 11-09-2013 11:54AM

Probably Chernobyl, I remember my parents watching the news about some place that had blew up or something and that was bad, but I had more pressing concerns like finding that Stormtrooper action figure in my room I lost.

What is the first big news story you remember seeing on TV?

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