What news coverage will you always remember

RomanKnows · 02-04-2015 11:23PM

Like others, I'll always remember 911. I was working in the home electronics department of a department store at the time. Just seeing all the televisions change over from Home and Away or whatever was on to this breaking coverage, and the crowds of people just starting to gather in the shop as the news kept developing.

On a personal note, the death of Dr. Garret Fitzgerald. I'd seen the man speak on a number of occasions over the years and was a huge admirer of his. I was in a hotel in Vietnam at the time and when I read the news I was shocked and deeply saddened. Listening in to the resulting radio coverage about this extraordinary statesman and intellectual really brought home to me about how we have people who truly wanted to do the State some service. There was stories about his early life working in Aer Lingus working out schedules and time slots before computers and presenting these at early conferences in Europe about the airline industry. About doing a 14 hour slot on TV at the age of 83 covering the general election count. His attempts to legislate for divorce and abortion in a deeply Catholic 1980's.

RomanKnows · 02-04-2015 11:24PM

Like others, I'll always remember 911. I was working in the home electronics department of a department store at the time. Just seeing all the televisions change over from Home and Away or whatever was on to this breaking coverage, and the crowds of people just starting to gather in the shop as the news kept developing.

On a personal note, the death of Dr. Garret Fitzgerald. I'd seen the man speak on a number of occasions over the years and was a huge admirer of his. I was in a hotel in Vietnam at the time and when I read the news I was shocked and deeply saddened. Listening in to the resulting radio coverage about this extraordinary statesman and intellectual really brought home to me about how we have people who truly want to do the State some service. There were stories about his early life working in Aer Lingus working out schedules and time slots before computers and presenting these at early conferences in Europe about the airline industry. About doing a 14 hour slot on TV at the age of 83 covering the general election count. His attempts to legislate for divorce and abortion in a deeply Catholic 1980's. His lectures and writing. His reputation as being a genuinely nice human being in an era of increasing cynicism and contempt for politicians.

Bret Hart · 02-04-2015 11:24PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The day Howard Webb retired was worse for utd fans

Wasn't as worse as the day Mike Riley retired,that man was a brilliant and very competent referee.

Un Croissant · 02-04-2015 11:26PM

Boston bombings. I remember some of us here on the site were tuned into police radios and comparing it to news reports. A crazy time.

anncoates · 02-04-2015 11:28PM

9/11

That awful late 80s concatenation of NI events: Gibraltar, The Milltown Cemetery attack and the killing of the two British soldiers.

Hillsborough, Heysel and Bradford (85-89)

HeidiHeidi · 02-04-2015 11:33PM

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

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.

This.

Was absolutely stopped in my tracks when I happened upon the TV newsflash.

Didn't hear about 9/11 until that evening, and didn't see a TV till about 10pm that night. I will never ever forget that first sight I saw of the planes flying into the towers. The rest of the world was used to it at that point ( iykwim) but it was the first myself and the group I was with had seen of it. Utterly shocking.

hairyprincess · 02-04-2015 11:41PM

Nelson Mandela being released, my mother made us all get up and leave our Sunday dinner to go into the TV in the sitting room.

The rescue of the Chilean miners I stayed up until the wee hours watching that.

Freedom is wheresit's at with me apparently!

One eyed Jack · 02-04-2015 11:46PM

The death of Princess Diana.

The fall of the Berlin Wall.

The announcement by the Ayatollah Khomeini of a fatwa on Salman Rushdie.

9/11.

The Papal elections.

Seamus Heaney's death.

Spike Milligan's death.

The discovery of Josef Fritzl's children.

Michael Jackson's trials.

The numerous reports into child abuse within the RCC and the stories that were uncovered.

efb · 02-04-2015 11:48PM

Enniskillen bombing
Wako siege

Duckworth_Luas · 02-04-2015 11:48PM

The Challenger disaster

The fact a civilian was going on the mission was big news. We had learned about it at school, space shuttles, orbit, spacewalks etc

Some after school TV show on RTE presented by Thelma Mansfield was interrupted by a newsflash. First time I ever seen one.

diomed · 02-04-2015 11:49PM

Nelson Mandela walking to freedom. No one knew what he looked like.

jca · 02-04-2015 11:49PM

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

That explains your user name:D

Arnold Layne · 02-04-2015 11:51PM

The day the music died.

I said bye bye that's your last cream pie. ..

jca · 02-04-2015 11:52PM

Princess Di or the Japanese/ Asian Tsunamis.

kjl · 02-04-2015 11:52PM

Grays Sports Almanac wrote: »

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

what!

nocoverart · 02-04-2015 11:53PM

Sheep Lover wrote: »

The day Westlife broke up

You were sad that Westlife broke up? Jesus, you really are a Sheep.

jamesoneill · 02-04-2015 11:54PM

Erica roe streak at Twickenham

lertsnim · 02-04-2015 11:54PM

Birmingham 6 being released, Nelson Mandela being released also, the execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife.

Bobby Baccala · 02-04-2015 11:55PM

The disappearance of holly wells and Jessica Chapman, creeped me out a lot at the time.

Also when farrah noors body was found in the royal canal and all the shít that happened afterwards

otoolepw · 02-04-2015 11:56PM

9/11 (was showing my mother how to send an email when I got a call from my bro to switch the TV on)

Diana's death, a very vivid memory, was going to the U2 PopMart gig the following night in Lansdowne Rd

bop1977 · 02-04-2015 11:57PM

The death of princess Diana. I remember coming back from the U2 Popmart concert in landsdown road and sky news spent 15 minutes saying she had died in a tunnel without ever saying who had died.

9/11. I had the radio off at work when I got a phonecall from head office. One of the guys was saying "have ye heard the news, two plane hit the twin towers one missing and a few more unaccounted for.

Gerry Ryan dying. I was in a que in a bank on oconnell street when I got a text from Mrs. Bop saying he had died. I loved listening to his ramblings every morning

padd b1975 · 03-04-2015 12:00AM

Challenger disaster.

Fall of communism in eastern Europe.

Famine in Ethiopia.

Assassination of Indira Ghandi, more so her public cremationif I'm honest...

Kerry babies.

Gwynplaine · 03-04-2015 12:01AM

The day Richard Burns died. Tragic, such a talent. Though it was hardly mentioned, as it was the same day George Best died.
Colin McRae in that helicipter crash, heard it while at my cousin's wedding.
The day I heard Kurt Cobain died, I think i was in 1st or 2nd year at the time.
The day Freddy Murcury died.
Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson.
Sampras winning his final slam in US in 2002.
MJ shooting the winning shot against the Jazz in 98.
The Tsunami. Twin Towers. Diana.

SMJSF · 03-04-2015 12:02AM

911... I was 7, and was at a friends house in her kitchen doing homework, and her mum screamed from the sitting room with sky news on the screen, and of course I didn't know what she was hysterical about! And I didn't know what terrorists or anything ment.

dr strangelove · 03-04-2015 12:04AM

Just about remember the end of the Vietnam War, but the Falklands War was my first proper war

Firefox11 · 03-04-2015 12:07AM

Yer only whipper-snappers! When I was a young lad I remember the tragedy of the Stardust fire and remember the horrific pictures in the papers vividly to this day.

Andrewf20 · 03-04-2015 12:07AM

Going back to when I was a young sprog, heres some highlights...

US embassy bombing in Beirut, 1983
Brighton bombing, 1984
BA plane bursts into flames on ground in Manchester, 1985
Iraq war, 1991
Zanardis crash at Eau rouge at the Belgian GP in 1993
Sennas death, 1994
Dianas death 1997 (remember that vividly)
And 9/11 of course.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 03-04-2015 12:11AM

Princess Diana's crash.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 03-04-2015 12:14AM

Brian Boru's death at the battle of Clontarf in 1014 and Enda Kenny coming out as a lesbian at the 2017 Rose of Tralee really stand out as two particularly big ones to me on a personal level, but if I had to pick just the one, it'd have to be when I was listening to the radio earlier today at the live Mozart gig in Nigeria when a special report came on from Andy the angry magical golden unicorn saying that one of my neighbours is keeping all my medication down in their pants.

Pity that he couldn't say in his report which neighbour.

But he kindly told me I've a 482% better chance of getting it back tonight if I wait until ALL my neighbours are asleep in their beds, I put raw meat on my head and I bring my cordless power drill with me.

gandalf · 03-04-2015 12:15AM

Hmm there are a few.

The Falklands War, I was still in primary school at the time and we all were delighted with the Argentinian sinking of British Ships. Shows how juvenile we were back then but at that time and in our minds Britain was the old enemy.

Space Shuttle disaster in 86. Was always fascinated by Space so this was a big shock.

The fall of the Wall in 89, because it was such a large part of our lives that Europe was divided.

Death of Princess Diana in '97 because my Dad had his first heart attack that night as well. I got back from a friends wedding only to find out the news. I had a few drinks on me so I couldn't drive to the hospital, so I stayed up all night watching the coverage on the channels that were on.

September the 11th Obviously. Was in a Pub having lunch and saw the coverage on the TV. Honestly thought it was a trailer for a new Die Hard film. It's only when they repeated the coverage that we realised it was something that was real.

What news coverage will you always remember

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