The Dublin bombings in 1974, so I'd have been around six. It was a much different time and information would have been sketchy at best. I think they were breaking into the tv schelude every now and then with updates. I remember worried faces in my house, my father had 2 brothers in the Civil Service in Dublin and I found out years later that he knew that they'd get their buses home in Parnell St. Every so often he'd go out to the hall to make a phone call to ring and see was there any news.
It was terrifying to a young lad like me that didn't really understand what was happening..
USA 94. Old man.
Drumcree around 1998 or so. Whenever the 3 young lads died in the petrol bomb attack on their house. I remember it well because the 3 boys in our house were all the same age as them young lads.
Think the first news story I would have been aware of would have been the death of Mountbatten at Mullaghmore. Remember the auld fella (not a fan of the royals!) also remarking on how there was so little coverage, by comparison, of the murder of all the British soldiers at Warrenpoint the same day.
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USA 94. Old man.
From this piece of information it's no wonder you can recant your best stories about the northern situation based on your first hand experience.
Good grief.
Quote from: J70 on November 27, 2017, 05:59:38 PM
Think the first news story I would have been aware of would have been the death of Mountbatten at Mullaghmore. Remember the auld fella (not a fan of the royals!) also remarking on how there was so little coverage, by comparison, of the murder of all the British soldiers at Warrenpoint the same day.
Wasn't there a rhyme associated with both of these???? :o
The capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise in Zeebrugge, Belgium
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Think the first news story I would have been aware of would have been the death of Mountbatten at Mullaghmore. Remember the auld fella (not a fan of the royals!) also remarking on how there was so little coverage, by comparison, of the murder of all the British soldiers at Warrenpoint the same day.
Wasn't there a rhyme associated with both of these???? :o
No idea.
While I grew up less than ten miles from the border as the crow flies, it was on the Donegal side in an area where there no (legal) crossings for miles. Might as well have been 100 miles away for the all the day to day interaction we had with the north.
Election in 1992 I think.
Aberfan disaster.
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Think the first news story I would have been aware of would have been the death of Mountbatten at Mullaghmore. Remember the auld fella (not a fan of the royals!) also remarking on how there was so little coverage, by comparison, of the murder of all the British soldiers at Warrenpoint the same day.
Wasn't there a rhyme associated with both of these???? :o
Yea. Some lowlives thought they were entertaining and enjoyed singing them !
9/11, can remember someone calling at the house and askinh had we seen the news and switching it on. Was in my cousin's house later glued to the TV but not old enough to really comprehend the magnitude of the event.
Death of JFK.Definitely a golden oldie I am.
I remember the boat sinking at Zeebrugee in Belgium one Sat morn. Must google to see what year it was.
Live Aid. 1985
I think we did this one before, and I had to do some quick googling to see the timeline because I wasn't sure if it was Hungerford, Corporals Killings, or Lockerbie. Turns out it would have been Hungerford. I also always remember the faces of the young men who were routinely on the news in the morning having been killed during the night or the previous day in an attack during the troubles. That was pretty much all of the 80s in my memory.
Have vague memories of Live Aid, but I distinctly remember watching the news regarding Hungerford.
Man on the Moon.
I can't remember what it was, but it was about Charlie Haughey. God only knows what.
Late 1960's, there was a scandal in the british government and they mentioned the Perfumo affair with a call-girl.
I innocently asked my Dad "what's a call-girl?"
As I puzzled why all my siblings were all sniggering, my Mum answered "just someone you phone up to talk to"
I vaguely remember the announcement of the death of Elvis Presley
Aberfan, still breaks me up when watching old footage today.
Think it was the Gibraltar Killings. As Puck says, lot of early memories of faces of people who were murdered on the television
Jack Lynch retiring. It said he wanted a rest and I thought he was under arrest.
Bombings, shootings, hunger strikes and riots.
1968 All-Ireland Final
The hunger strikes, the funerals and rioting that was on the news every evening
James Bulger
Reports from Ethiopia on the famine around 1984.
Quote from: Orior on November 27, 2017, 08:46:32 PM
Late 1960's, there was a scandal in the british government and they mentioned the Perfumo affair with a call-girl.
I innocently asked my Dad "what's a call-girl?"
As I puzzled why all my siblings were all sniggering, my Mum answered "just someone you phone up to talk to"
You're older than you think
That was 1961.
Aberfan Welsh mining disaster in October 1966. I was four and a half.
Challenger disaster.
Quote from: 5 Sams on November 27, 2017, 07:58:49 PM
Man on the Moon.
Good man 5 Sams - same story for me - remember being allowed to stay up late to see the rocket launch - it seemed like an eternity waiting for lift off!
I can't remember which one came first it was either Michael buerk reporting from Ethiopia, the Mexico City earthquake or the volcano that erupted in Columbia causing chaos and mudslides. All were around 1985 or so.
Before that I can't remember what he was reporting but I can remember Don Coburn on the news.
Grew and Carroll gunned down not far from our house in 1984. I would have been 5 at the time. We moved out of the town after that. I'll always remember it on the TV and my Mother going off on one and my dad being all quiet. He was good mates at the time with Carroll's older brother and would have known the lads well.
From 1974
Sport - FA Cup Final, World Cup, All Ireland Final, Rumble in the Jungle
News - 2 UK General Elections, Ulster Workers Council Strike
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Grew and Carroll gunned down not far from our house in 1984. I would have been 5 at the time. We moved out of the town after that. I'll always remember it on the TV and my Mother going off on one and my dad being all quiet. He was good mates at the time with Carroll's older brother and would have known the lads well.
1982?
I thought it was 84 - let me google it here
you're right Puck it was december 82. I was only 4! madness how something can sit with you..i think it was because it was so close to our house it was literally less than half a mile down the road and we knew them or ours one did
Yeah, I was reading about it last year in the Irish News.
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.
I remember the hoo ha over the pope arriving, 79?
Aberfan.
I should remember JFK but don't.
Still waiting for Hardy's first memory.Brian Boru.😂😂
First international event would have been the man on the moon, the first home event would have been bloody sunday.
I grew up in a house that ate their dinner in the living room while watching the 6 o'clock news. Nothing was really shielded to my young eyes in terms of news coverage. In saying that though i cant think of a specific news story that stood out. Each day was deaths, punishment beatings and bombs.
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.
Probably the death of Robert F Kennedy. Wikipedia tells me it was 6 June 68.
Abba winning Eurovision 19774 ( with Waterloo for all you youngsters)
Loughinisland, was 9 or so at the time. Didn't really understand or grasp with the world cup etc.
Quote from: CiKe on November 27, 2017, 09:24:28 PM
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
Emigrate? From Ireland? On account of killings in Gibraltar? Don't understand that?
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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?
Quote from: T Fearon on November 28, 2017, 05:46:03 PM
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.
The Ethiopian famine in 1984. I was in P4 at the time and we did a fundraiser of some sort.
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on November 28, 2017, 06:21:49 PM
Quote from: T Fearon on November 28, 2017, 05:46:03 PM
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?
Quote from: armaghniac on November 27, 2017, 06:29:26 PM
Aberfan disaster.
Same here, struck by the news taking over the children's programming and the fact a whole primary school was wiped out.
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!
John Lennon was shot on a Monday night,early Tuesday our time.Couldnt have interrupted Saturday cartoons
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.
Quote from: T Fearon on November 28, 2017, 09:21:13 PM
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 ;D ;D ;D
He is!
Bobby Sands.
Another early memory of news on tv although probably not back to '74 was watching late night BBC and the sound going down and a stern voiceover telling key holders in some random provincial town to return to their business as there were incendiary devices. This voice was often accompanied by a crap graphic..
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Quote from: T Fearon on November 28, 2017, 05:46:03 PM
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?
They were there to kill soldiers and anyone else with in range of the carbomb in Gibraltar!
^^^^^
I believe he meant the two corporals....
Thatcher being elected, Pope in Ireland. Both 1979 so whichever one happened first.
Aberfan is my first clear memory. I also vividly remember seeing some war footage on the news and getting very upset. It was a clip of an aerial bombing raid and must have been either Vietnam or the 6 Days War. I remember my parents trying to comfort me by saying it was just a film.
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on November 28, 2017, 06:21:49 PM
Quote from: T Fearon on November 28, 2017, 05:46:03 PM
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.
That didn't happen at a gibraltar funeral, it happened at the funeral of someone who Michael Stone had killed, at a gibraltar funeral, 3 days earlier. Given that context, its not hard to understand why tensions were running high, and it is hard to understand why they went in there - showboating according to former colleagues. Definitely hard to watch though.
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Quote from: T Fearon on November 28, 2017, 05:46:03 PM
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.
That didn't happen at a gibraltar funeral, it happened at the funeral of someone who Michael Stone had killed, at a gibraltar funeral, 3 days earlier. Given that context, its not hard to understand why tensions were running high, and it is hard to understand why they went in there - showboating according to former colleagues. Definitely hard to watch though.
The Gibraltar executions and the chain of events that sparked was probably the first time the news really grabbed my attention. I would have been 7.
I would have recollections of bits and pieces of stories and events before it (the 86 world cup for example), but when all that was going on , i was really aware that it was big in the context of our country.
Probably the darkest period in the history of the North.
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Quote from: T Fearon on November 28, 2017, 05:46:03 PM
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.
That didn't happen at a gibraltar funeral, it happened at the funeral of someone who Michael Stone had killed, at a gibraltar funeral, 3 days earlier. Given that context, its not hard to understand why tensions were running high, and it is hard to understand why they went in there - showboating according to former colleagues. Definitely hard to watch though.
The Gibraltar executions and the chain of events that sparked was probably the first time the news really grabbed my attention. I would have been 7.
I would have recollections of bits and pieces of stories and events before it (the 86 world cup for example), but when all that was going on , i was really aware that it was big in the context of our country.
Probably the darkest period in the history of the North.
Pop goes Northern Ireland I think its called was om BBC 1 last night, its like reeling in the years was on last night and it was showing the footage of the Gibraltar executions and Michael Stone at Milltown aswell as the 2 solders getting shot. I think those events were the first real news items I remember. 1988, it's unreal to think those kinda things happened in Ireland and normal life just went on.
After much googling I found the rhyme I was referring too "13 gone and not forgotten...." you can fill in the blanks.
Quote from: T Fearon on November 28, 2017, 05:46:03 PM
Emigrate? From Ireland? On account of killings in Gibraltar? Don't understand that?
the chain of events which it sparked, not just those murders in gibraltar
Quote from: seafoid on November 28, 2017, 12:57:42 PM
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.
The BBC NI 'Reeling in the years' program is on TV Tuesday nights; the past 2 nights I've seen it dealt with years 1977, 1988. The horror and savagery, quotidian then, seems grotesque even now. IRA, INLA, UDA, UVF slaughters, tit-for-tat killings and bombings, RUC, British Army duplicity, soft-spoken weasel words from Sinn Fein, thundering hate-filled rhetoric from Ian Paisley, People for Peace etc. How did anyone sane ever survive?
Anyway, perhaps my earliest news memory was the funeral of Erskine Childers. Musta thought the 1916 Rising was still going on... Also recall the kidnap and hostage situation in Monasteravin of Teide Herema.
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Quote from: T Fearon on November 28, 2017, 09:21:13 PM
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 ;D ;D ;D
Leave him alone. Still suffering shell shock after suddenly deprived of Tom and Jerry as a child
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Quote from: seafoid on November 28, 2017, 12:57:42 PM
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.
The BBC NI 'Reeling in the years' program is on TV Tuesday nights; the past 2 nights I've seen it dealt with years 1977, 1988. The horror and savagery, quotidian then, seems grotesque even now. IRA, INLA, UDA, UVF slaughters, tit-for-tat killings and bombings, RUC, British Army duplicity, soft-spoken weasel words from Sinn Fein, thundering hate-filled rhetoric from Ian Paisley, People for Peace etc. How did anyone sane ever survive?
Anyway, perhaps my earliest news memory was the funeral of Erskine Childers. Musta thought the 1916 Rising was still going on... Also recall the kidnap and hostage situation in Monasteravin of Teide Herema.
Was it the father or the sons funeral?
Quote from: Therealdonald on November 29, 2017, 02:56:01 PM
After much googling I found the rhyme I was referring too "13 gone and not forgotten...." you can fill in the blanks.
i remember that.
Quote from: longballin on November 29, 2017, 03:37:58 PM
Quote from: Therealdonald on November 29, 2017, 02:56:01 PM
After much googling I found the rhyme I was referring too "13 gone and not forgotten...." you can fill in the blanks.
i remember that.
Childish waffle recited by scum of low or nil intelligence
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Quote from: longballin on November 29, 2017, 03:37:58 PM
Quote from: Therealdonald on November 29, 2017, 02:56:01 PM
After much googling I found the rhyme I was referring too "13 gone and not forgotten...." you can fill in the blanks.
i remember that.
Childish waffle recited by scum of low or nil intelligence
Avondhu I have recited above rhyme a fair few times, and I have recited some more, I can categorically state that I am of neither low intelligence nor am I scum. So I would appreciate if you kept the name calling to yourself.
Quote from: lurganblue on November 28, 2017, 12:27:30 PM
I grew up in a house that ate their dinner in the living room while watching the 6 o'clock news. Nothing was really shielded to my young eyes in terms of news coverage. In saying that though i cant think of a specific news story that stood out. Each day was deaths, punishment beatings and bombs.
In the mid 70s,I was starting my soccer career (which ultimately fell well short of my objectives to play in the European Cup) as the baby of the side in a Lurgan adult team.I recall on the minibus to an away game one of the lads commenting on a TV news programme about Biafra which featured women and young children running about with guns.Another team mate retorted "FFS you see that all the time in Kilwilkie!" 😂😂😂😂
If the world cup in 1990 doesn't count the it was the outbreak of the first Gulf War. I think I was 6 or 7. Locally it was the Shankhill bomb and a picture of a wee girl that was murdered in it has never left me. Then a week later the Rising Sun shooting which my mum grew up beside and knew five of the people murdered.
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Quote from: Avondhu star on November 29, 2017, 06:14:00 PM
Quote from: longballin on November 29, 2017, 03:37:58 PM
Quote from: Therealdonald on November 29, 2017, 02:56:01 PM
After much googling I found the rhyme I was referring too "13 gone and not forgotten...." you can fill in the blanks.
i remember that.
Childish waffle recited by scum of low or nil intelligence
Avondhu I have recited above rhyme a fair few times, and I have recited some more, I can categorically state that I am of neither low intelligence nor am I scum. So I would appreciate if you kept the name calling to yourself.
Anyone who actually thinks that reciting that rubbish serves any purposes surely ticks the scum box and low intelligence box.
Quote from: Avondhu star on November 30, 2017, 01:28:27 PM
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Quote from: Avondhu star on November 29, 2017, 06:14:00 PM
Quote from: longballin on November 29, 2017, 03:37:58 PM
Quote from: Therealdonald on November 29, 2017, 02:56:01 PM
After much googling I found the rhyme I was referring too "13 gone and not forgotten...." you can fill in the blanks.
i remember that.
Childish waffle recited by scum of low or nil intelligence
Avondhu I have recited above rhyme a fair few times, and I have recited some more, I can categorically state that I am of neither low intelligence nor am I scum. So I would appreciate if you kept the name calling to yourself.
Anyone who actually thinks that reciting that rubbish serves any purposes surely ticks the scum box and low intelligence box.
And you're qualified to come to this conclusion how?? Lick the back of them Avondhu.
Think it was the Eniskillen bombing in my case.
Eamonn DeValeras funeral 1975
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Quote from: Avondhu star on November 29, 2017, 06:14:00 PM
Quote from: longballin on November 29, 2017, 03:37:58 PM
Quote from: Therealdonald on November 29, 2017, 02:56:01 PM
After much googling I found the rhyme I was referring too "13 gone and not forgotten...." you can fill in the blanks.
i remember that.
Childish waffle recited by scum of low or nil intelligence
Avondhu I have recited above rhyme a fair few times, and I have recited some more, I can categorically state that I am of neither low intelligence nor am I scum. So I would appreciate if you kept the name calling to yourself.
Anyone who actually thinks that reciting that rubbish serves any purposes surely ticks the scum box and low intelligence box.
And you're qualified to come to this conclusion how?? Lick the back of them Avondhu.
Many years watching bar stool republicans
Quote from: OakleafCounty on November 30, 2017, 09:52:30 AM
If the world cup in 1990 doesn't count the it was the outbreak of the first Gulf War. I think I was 6 or 7. Locally it was the Shankhill bomb and a picture of a wee girl that was murdered in it has never left me. Then a week later the Rising Sun shooting which my mum grew up beside and knew five of the people murdered.
In my day "the Gulf war" was the Iran-Iraq war. When Desert Storm started people were calling it the "second Gulf War." Shame how the Iran-Iraq war seems to have disappeared from memory.
Biafra appeal. We collected money in school for the 'Black babies' as they were known. Late 60s
9/11. I am in my 20s so I don't remember the war in Ulster, all the stuff I grew up with was mainly politicians guldering at each other in Stormont. My father always talks about the war in Ulster, people seem to think that war was something foreign pre 1969, they act as if they are the only ones who experienced war but Ulster has been a hot bed of conflict since medieval times, the only difference is that video cameras existed during this war which makes it more famous.
The attempted assassination of Mr J R Ewing in Dallas
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The attempted assassination of Mr J R Ewing in Dallas
Who shot JR?
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If the world cup in 1990 doesn't count the it was the outbreak of the first Gulf War. I think I was 6 or 7. Locally it was the Shankhill bomb and a picture of a wee girl that was murdered in it has never left me. Then a week later the Rising Sun shooting which my mum grew up beside and knew five of the people murdered.
In my day "the Gulf war" was the Iran-Iraq war. When Desert Storm started people were calling it the "second Gulf War." Shame how the Iran-Iraq war seems to have disappeared from memory.
Not from memory, just erased by US from normal discourse for political convenience given its backing of one side in this proxy war and to enhance the importance of the wars that it fought openly with ground troops.
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If the world cup in 1990 doesn't count the it was the outbreak of the first Gulf War. I think I was 6 or 7. Locally it was the Shankhill bomb and a picture of a wee girl that was murdered in it has never left me. Then a week later the Rising Sun shooting which my mum grew up beside and knew five of the people murdered.
In my day "the Gulf war" was the Iran-Iraq war. When Desert Storm started people were calling it the "second Gulf War." Shame how the Iran-Iraq war seems to have disappeared from memory.
Not from memory, just erased by US from normal discourse for political convenience given its backing of one side in this proxy war and to enhance the importance of the wars that it fought openly with ground troops.
Saddam was a great fella back then, doing the bidding of the US in trying to topple the Ayatollah Khomeini after he'd got rid of the US friendly Shah.
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First real news story I remember was the arrival of the Vietnamese and Cambodian Boat People as they were called in Ireland in the late 70's. I think they were fleeing their homeland and the rule of Pol Pot at the time. I can still remember the news story that was showing the conflict in Cambodia and how it announced they were on their way to Ireland. I remember the sudden urge to be sick as I thought the whole conflict would be coming with them. Of course there were the daily shootings, bombings and funerals in the north which seemed normal at the time. Was only much later when I reaslised it was far from normal.
Quote from: Orior on November 27, 2017, 08:46:32 PM
Late 1960's, there was a scandal in the british government and they mentioned the Perfumo affair with a call-girl.
I innocently asked my Dad "what's a call-girl?"
As I puzzled why all my siblings were all sniggering, my Mum answered "just someone you phone up to talk to"
Whoops. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42245839 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42245839)