What are the first Irish news stories that you remember from your childhood?

froggie76 · 10-02-2016 01:22AM

Philip Cairns disappearance, and his schoolbag turning up the next week, the first time I realised that adults didn't have all the answers,and that bad things happened to kids,often still think about him, especially now that I am a parent myself.

10-02-2016 01:29AM

I remember the Eamon Casey scandal and my parents being horrified.

The Omagh Bombings. It was one off those catastrophes that you will never forget where you were at the time.

Princess Diana's death.

In sport it was all Italia 90. My friends and I used to be on my swings singing Jackies Army.
Stephen Roche winning the Tour de France
Barry McGuigan and the boxing.

In to my teens it was the case of Fiona Pender and the amount of other young women who went missing at that time. Jo Jo Dullard, Annie Mccarrick..so many unanswered questions.

Citizenpain · 10-02-2016 01:32AM

mzungu wrote: »

The border fox kidnapping John O'Grady.

Same !

Azalea · 10-02-2016 01:33AM

I remember the Anglo-Irish Agreement too - no idea why. What a boring news story for a child to remember.

And I remember Phil Lynott's death (30-year anniversary recently).

Remember Haughey, Thatcher, Reagan and Gorbachev never being off the news too. And G. Fitzgerald a lot also.

zcorpian88 · 10-02-2016 02:16AM

God it's hard to think of news stories that are Irish rather than the big ones that were international.

I grew up in the 90's so it's all relatively recent compared to most people posting, nearly all the stories mentioned ya'd see on a typical episode of Reeling in the Years

I know one story I remember when it broke, it wasn't Irish though, 1993: The Jamie Bulger case, I remember my mother being horrified over that and I was only about 4 at the time.

I remember Bill Clinton's visits here in the 90's.

I remember I think it was 1994 when Boris Yeltsin couldn't be woke on the plane when he came for a state visit, people said he was drunk or hungover when he landed and couldn't get off the plane.

I remember Ireland winning the Eurovision with Rock N' Roll Kids.

Duckworth_Luas · 10-02-2016 02:17AM

Bosco being unable to choose which hat to wear to the park with Marion and Philip.

Azalea · 10-02-2016 02:24AM

zcorpian88 wrote: »

God it's hard to think of news stories that are Irish rather than the big ones that were international.

I grew up in the 90's so it's all relatively recent compared to most people posting, nearly all the stories mentioned ya'd see on a typical episode of Reeling in the Years

I know one story I remember when it broke, it wasn't Irish though, 1993: The Jamie Bulger case, I remember my mother being horrified over that and I was only about 4 at the time.

I remember Bill Clinton's visits here in the 90's.

I remember I think it was 1994 when Boris Yeltsin couldn't be woke on the plane when he came for a state visit, people said he was drunk or hungover when he landed and couldn't get off the plane.

I remember Ireland winning the Eurovision with Rock N' Roll Kids.

You'd see all those on Reeling In The Years too ya auldie!

padd b1975 · 10-02-2016 02:25AM

The Pope coming to Knock.

Dublin v Kerry in the AI Final what seemed like every year.

Hunger strikes.

Three general elections in eighteen months.

Olympic boycotts.

zcorpian88 · 10-02-2016 02:30AM

Azalea wrote: »

You'd see all those on Reeling In The Years too ya auldie!

Quiet you whippersnap, I'll teach you ta....to...ehhh....(Falls asleep in armchair)

Azalea · 10-02-2016 02:31AM

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Quiet you whippersnap, I'll teach you ta....to...ehhh....(Falls asleep in armchair)

I remember the 80s ones though - super-auldie here. :pac:

Banjoxed · 10-02-2016 02:34AM

The day after Bloody Sunday was a quickly declared day off. We only had RTE then and not even the testcard was broadcast until 6pm, just static until just before the Angelus. Then the News, and the riots and burning of the British Embassy.

ArnoldJRimmer · 10-02-2016 02:38AM

The early eighties are just a blur of my father swearing at the news, usually either Haughey, Paisley or Thatcher he was calling a cnut. That and ads for mastitis in between

I do vividly remember Barry McGuigan winning though

Azalea · 10-02-2016 02:42AM

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

The early eighties are just a blur of my father swearing at the news, usually either Haughey, Paisley or Thatcher he was calling a cnut. That and ads for mastitis in between

Exact same here.

foggy_lad · 10-02-2016 03:40AM

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

The early eighties are just a blur of my father swearing at the news, usually either Haughey, Paisley or Thatcher he was calling a cnut. That and ads for mastitis in between

I do vividly remember Barry McGuigan winning though

Haha Triple AAA Golden Maverick and Johnny Logan and again Johnny Logan in Eurovision, Whiddy Island, Stardust, Buttevent, Sallins train robery, Popes visit, Miami showband massacre, Bridie Gargan murder and the manhunt especially around Kildare, The bauld Nell Mc Cafferty, Air India bombing, the Shah of Iran being deposed, Bus strikes, bin strikes, ESB strikes, postal strikes, bank strikes, petrol rationing, Pol Pot and cambodia, Herrema Kidnapping, The Brendan Voyage, every week there were stories of trouble in the North and South Africa and Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel etc

Sundew · 11-02-2016 07:33PM

The Anne Lovett R.I.P story also sticks out in my head as me of my first news stories.
Again I was too young to actually know what was going on, but recall her name being constantly on the t.v and radio. Makes you realise how God damm awful Ireland was in the 80's!

Filmer Paradise · 11-02-2016 08:54PM

foggy_lad wrote: »

Haha Triple AAA Golden Maverick and Johnny Logan and again Johnny Logan in Eurovision, Whiddy Island, Stardust, Buttevent, Sallins train robery, Popes visit, Miami showband massacre, Bridie Gargan murder and the manhunt especially around Kildare, The bauld Nell Mc Cafferty, Air India bombing, the Shah of Iran being deposed, Bus strikes, bin strikes, ESB strikes, postal strikes, bank strikes, petrol rationing, Pol Pot and cambodia, Herrema Kidnapping, The Brendan Voyage, every week there were stories of trouble in the North and South Africa and Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel etc

That would be the same era that I would have started taking an interest in current affairs.

Also the Ferenka strike in Limerick & the Mountbatten killings.

Jimmy Carter being elected president of the US.

I remember everyone remarking 'He's a peanut farmer you know'.

What are the first Irish news stories that you remember from your childhood?

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