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

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I think one of the first big news stories I remember is the Omagh bombing. I also have a vague memory of seeing a lot of news about Veronica Guerin's car on the Naas Road.
So, what is the first big news story you remember seeing on TV?

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stefan idiot jones

foxinsox wrote: »

1977 I think it was.

Elvis dying..

Same for me. Christ, I'm old.

IvyTheTerrible

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

Hoop66

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

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

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

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

Richard Hillman

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

Sleepy

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

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

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

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

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

For me it was probably the plane crash in Emerdale

Never Forget....

paddy147

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

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

SEPT 23 1989

Heysel May 85

gramar

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

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

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

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

foxinsox wrote: »

1977 I think it was.

Elvis dying..

me too

walrusgumble

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

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

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

Diana.

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

John Mason

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

sbsquarepants

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

Dyr

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

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

The border cūnt I believe he was called!!

doubledown

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

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.