The greatest thing you've lived to see in your lifetime

The 2013 All Ireland Semi Final between Dublin and Kerry what a ****ing match.

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Will we see a Woman being elected as President ?

2016.

I lived in West Germany from Jan 89, I was 18. In those months I hitch hiked to West Berlin a couple of times and spent a few weeks of the summer of 1989 Inter Railing eastern europe, so for me its the fall of the Iron Curtain and that only a few months after Tiananmen Square.

Three day queues in Bucharest for a Hungarian visa and travelling from Budapest to Vienna in August 89 in trains stuffed with East German refugees knowing that you were literally witnessing history first hand is probably my highlight.

Worked at the1998 World Cup and sitting behind he goal as Zidane headed the first two goals in was something special too as was that night in Paris.

On a smaller note witnessing first hand two peaceful, bloodless coups in Guinea Bissau and reading a totally different version in the International Herald Tribune a week later making me realise that some people in the media really do twist the news to suit their own agenda.

Hoping we might actually find some signs of life somewhere else before my lifetime's up! That'd be pretty cool, even if it's just microbes or insects or something.

Things that I find most mind blowing that occurred in my lifetime:

True mass global communications - cheap, fast, usable Internet and mobiles. I still think this is going to change everything and already is doing.

Ireland liberalising. I'm only hitting the big 30 but this place has changed beyond all recognition since I was a kid. It was so stuffy and conservative when I think back on it. There's still some legacy issues but for a non-conformist, non-heterosexual, atheist it's a way nicer country. Most likely if I'd been a bit older I reckon I'd have left. I can't imagine having being a young adult here in the 80s!! How did you all not just emigrate?!

The collapse of the Soviet bloc and the opening up of Eastern Europe ... All these cities and countries that suddenly appeared from beyond an iron curtain. Happened in my lifetime although I'm too young to remember the before bit, but still very cool.

Cheap and frequent air travel!! There's soooo much more of the world open to me that would have been unaffordable to visit in the 70, 80s and even 90s

^ Cool