1st news story you remember from tv as a child.

[seafoid]

I remember our Northern correspondent Póilín Ní Chiaráin reporting on atrocities all through the 80s. They became expected except when something really awful happened like Enniskillen.

[AQMP]

Probably the death of Robert F Kennedy.  Wikipedia tells me it was 6 June 68.

[rosnarun]

Abba winning Eurovision 19774 ( with Waterloo for all you youngsters)

[GetOverTheBar]

Loughinisland, was 9 or so at the time. Didn't really understand or grasp with the world cup etc.

[tonto1888]

Think it was the Gibraltar Killings. As Puck says, lot of early memories of faces of people who were murdered on the television

I remember this. A terrible few days. Funny I was chatting to my mum about it a few weeks ago and she said it was the only time her and my dad thought an emigrating. I kind of wish they did

[T Fearon]

Emigrate? From Ireland? On account of killings in Gibraltar? Don't understand that?

[Avondhu star]

John Lennon murder.
The Stardust fire.

They suspended the cartoons for Saturday morning for the 2 stories. All the big people crying.
Stardust was awful. The families were shafted.

What do you know about it?

[Eamonnca1]

Emigrate? From Ireland? On account of killings in Gibraltar? Don't understand that?

Probably the killing of those army corporals that followed. That was hard to watch. I was sick to my stomach.

[Clov]

The Ethiopian famine in 1984. I was in P4 at the time and we did a fundraiser of some sort.

[Therealdonald]

Emigrate? From Ireland? On account of killings in Gibraltar? Don't understand that?

Probably the killing of those army corporals that followed. That was hard to watch. I was sick to my stomach.

Did it ever come out why they were there?

[Owen Brannigan]

Aberfan disaster.

Same here, struck by the news taking over the children's programming and the fact a whole primary school was wiped out.

[JoG2]

Arthur Scargill battling Attila the Hen. The one the sticks out most though (teenager though)was the 1st Iraq war kicking off when Sportsnight on BBC1 on a Wednesday night was interupted midshow (was the first time I'd heard of CNN who were doing the reporting).. Sitting impatiently waiting on the sport to come back on!

[T Fearon]

John Lennon was shot on a Monday night,early Tuesday our time.Couldnt have interrupted Saturday cartoons

[T Fearon]

Oddly enough I have no recollection of soccer or indeed any sport until the World Cup Finals in 1966,even though I was aware of the Kennedy shooting nearly three years earlier.

[imtommygunn]

John Lennon was shot on a Monday night,early Tuesday our time.Couldnt have interrupted Saturday cartoons

You can't mean seafoid is talking crap- he wouldn't do that