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What news coverage will you always remember

  • 02-04-2015 11:01PM
    #1
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭


    For me because of my age itwould be 9/11

    I remember a bunch of people gathering outside a cafe looking in at the news story on bbc as breaking news after school

    What news coverage will you always remember....either big or small


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Comments

  • #2
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    I imagine that will be most people's answer.


  • #3
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Freddie Starr eating a hamster


  • #4
    scary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭scary


    Obviously 911 but also the live coverage of the OJ Simpson trial.


  • #5
    Slippin Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,030 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    911. I remember watching the news as the second plane hit the tower. I was young enough when it happened and didn't really understand what was going on. Still get shivers when I see the footage shown.


  • #6
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    I was having sex while the 9/11 was happening. I remember it moreso for the sex than the 9/11 event though

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



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  • #7
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Freddie Starr eating a hamster


    Never heard that. He ate a hamster..should i ask why


  • #8
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Hillsborough, it happened on the day I was having a birthday party.

    I vividly remember watching it on the news with my dad.

    :(


  • #9
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Birmingham 6/Guildford 4 being released.


  • #10
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I am old enough to remember when a "news flash" really meant something big

    We interrupt this programme...

    It was Heysel for me

    another episode in the disaster zone that was public safety in the 1980's


  • #11
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    11/9


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  • #12
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    buried wrote: »
    I was having sex while the 9/11 was happening. I remember it moreso for the sex than the 9/11 event though


    What was his name


  • #13
    NomadicGray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭NomadicGray


    Chernobyl, i didn't even know what a nuclear panner plant was.


  • #14
    Grays Sports Almanac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Grays Sports Almanac


    Aengus MacGrianna touching up his make-up live on air.


  • #15
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    mixery wrote: »
    clarkson getting sacked.

    WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?!?


  • #16
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    Fall of the iron curtain would be the biggest, suppose more of an impressionable age and it just turned the geopolitical world as I knew it on its head. For some reason Romania's ceaucescu and his wife especially.


  • #17
    Bret Hart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭Bret Hart


    The day the great man Sir Alex retired :( Awful day for Utd fans and football in general.


  • #18
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    For me it was when Holly and Jessica went missing and all the subsequent coverage that followed. It was so heartbreaking to watch. Two gorgeous little girls.


  • #19
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    The Killing of hundreds of Indians in Bhopal India by leaks from a Union Carbide plant in 1984 and seeing the bodies lined up for mass burials, followed by the Air India plane crash in 1985 and seeing the bodies being lined up in a hanger at Cork airport.


  • #20
    Hannibal Smith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,893 ✭✭✭Hannibal Smith


    The Omagh bombing. I clicked on to the news half way through the bulletin and saw the devastation. I remember wondering 'where the hell that happen? Itslike something you'd see from the north in the 80s'. My jaw dropped when I heard it was Omagh.


  • #21
    keysersoze1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭keysersoze1


    911 and dianas death in paris


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  • #22
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    The day Westlife broke up :(


  • #23
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Miriam's choker.


  • #24
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    The assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Shocking.


  • #25
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    I am old enough to remember when a "news flash" really meant something big

    We interrupt this programme...

    Except when they were on UTV because that just meant the police wanted keyholders in certain areas/streets to go to their shops and open up so they could be searched for IRA incendiaries.


  • #26
    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    Sitting and watching the twin towers fall from the roof of my apartment in Brooklyn and listening to the reports come in over the radio. Surreal isn't the word.

    Besides that the release of the Guildford four.


  • #27
    ArnoldJRimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,533 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Man falling on the ice


  • #28
    thomil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,280 ✭✭✭thomil


    Well, 9/11 was already mentioned, but that one will remain etched in my mind forever. However, both the Boxing Day tsunami and the 2011 Tohoku tsunami are two others that will stick with me.

    Honorable mention will have to go to the Eyafjallajokull eruption in 2009, which shut down the airspace over Europe, and with that the transport network of the company I was working for at the time.

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • #29
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    Yeah the tsunami in South East Asia was another massive one. Tears watching it.


  • #30
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Bret Hart wrote: »
    The day the great man Sir Alex retired :( Awful day for Utd fans and football in general.
    The day Howard Webb retired was worse for utd fans


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  • #31
    Iranoutofideas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas


    Fianna Fail denying the IMF were in town while the BBC were confirming it.


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