What news coverage will you always remember

jamesoneill

Junkyard Cat wrote: »

When Deirdre Barlow got locked up for crimes she didn't commit and people campaigned to have her released in real life.

ken barlows trial was worse

foggy_lad

One memory that will always remain with me is the lines of buses on all the roads into the Chernobyl area, all parked up waiting for the evacuation to begin, and the footage of people with 1 small suitcase each carrying their children onto the buses leaving everything they owned even the family dog or cat behind, also the hospitals for hundreds of miles being prepared for those with radiation poisoning.

Junkyard Tom

jamesoneill wrote: »

ken barlows trial was worse

Was that not real life though? People were actually campaigning in real life to have a fictional character released from a fictional prison sentence.

Tearin It Up

July 2014.

The Garth Brooks concert cancellation.

Spent the whole month crying. It was made worse in that they dragged it out, its on, its off, its on, its off.

I knew it was over from the day Garth Brooks said it was 5 or none and there was no way Dublin City Council could go back on their decision on three concerts.

I'm sorry I didn't bet last year on it because that is how sure I was that Garth Brooks meant his word. You don't sell tickets to cancel. He was always for the fans. It was a biography book I read a couple of years ago about him. But then I never set foot in a betting office before and I wouldn't know what to do.

mister gullible

Berlin Wall, 9/11 ... oh and Garth Brooks :rolleyes:

Conall Cernach

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

He was a former member of the IRA who kidnapped a Dublin dentist, chopped off two of his fingers with a hammer and chisel and left the fingers in a box in Carlow Cathedral. He also confessed to killing 26 people.

No need to be scared of him really.

My parents were sitting beside him at a wedding recently. He's a nice chap apparently and keeps hens according to my father. He found Jesus too.

Tearin It Up

mister gullible wrote: »

... oh and Garth Brooks :rolleyes:

I'll never let anyone forget that.

Roanmore

The 1981 Spanish Coup attempt, was wondering at the time what the guy with the funny hat and gun was doing.

micar

The OJ Simpson Verdict
9/11
Berlin Wall
Tsunami 2004
Veronica Guerin murder

jamesoneill

Conall Cernach wrote: »

He found Jesus too.

where?

branie2

9/11, the death of Diana and of Pope JPII

lulu1

jamesoneill wrote: »

where?

Did Jesus know he was lost when your man found him?

wdmfapq4zs83hv

9/11, Dunblane, the Louise Woodward trial (shaken baby) , recent Malaysia flight that was shot down over Ukraine. Tsunami Stephens Day

FloatingVoter

Chernobyl

Berlin Wall ...

Kurt Cobain suicide

Princess Di (the crash was announced right after Planes, Trains and Automobiles on RTE1)...it was just a crash at that point. She was dead a few hours later.

9 / 11 (watched the second plane go in live on Sky - thats the one that will remain etched for sure).

The Far East tsunami (I was the only drunk idiot awake at that hour)

.....I think I remember John Lennon getting shot but that's more me remembering my dad being pissed off about it.

p38

The start of the first Gulf war watching the grainy night vision of tracer fire over Bagdad thinking this looks like a cool video-game (our generation huh).

branie2

branie2 wrote: »

9/11, the death of Diana and of Pope JPII

Pope John Paul was a good one. It was intriguing in a guiltless way, because he was an old man and death was perhaps a sweet release.

I remember the evening he died. It was dusk and I was beside the television watching the Sky news. Someone said 'go out Miltiades, and do that job before it's dark'.
So I went out, and as I walked down the path, the dog gave me a furtive glance, and I had this terrible, grim feeling that the Pope was suddenly dead. I had an image of a crying nun. It was like an epiphany.
I walked into the yard and my brother was at the radio he said "oh well the pope is dead now". I went back up to my house and wrote a poem about my strange vision to mark the moment.

You might say it was just an unremarkable fluke but I still bore people with this story at house parties, and on internet forums.

KoolKid

What comes to mind for me is 9/11 and Princess Diana death.
More recently was following the MH 370 story.

JTL

The PIRA bomb at Canary Wharf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsTlvCQmBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsTlvCQmBY (embedding isn't working)
one of the biggest explosions in the UK, back then the old air raid sirens were used to call the fire brigade and I remember them going off all over the area and we lived oner 100 miles away. The firemen were called in to cover stations nearer to Hull as their firemen were called to the fire itself.

At about 16:53 hours on Saturday 1 June 1974 the Nypro (UK) site at Flixborough was severely damaged by a large explosion. Twenty-eight workers were killed and a further 36 suffered injuries. It is recognised that the number of casualties would have been more if the incident had occurred on a weekday, as the main office block was not occupied. Offsite consequences resulted in fifty-three reported injuries. Property in the surrounding area was damaged to a varying degree.

weldoninhio

scottmcb04 wrote: »

The Washington sniper is one that sticks with me, the people were frightened for their lives at the time, it was surreal!

This was a big one. No one knew what was happening. The daily press conferences were surreal. I remember watching them when I got home from school.

I can remember the Guilford 4 or Birmingham 6 being released when I was really young. I was in my grandmothers house and all the adults were glued to the tv.

Edit: Operation Shock and Awe a few years ago. The nightclub I was in had it on the wall TVs around the club, it was mad to watch thinking I was out having a few drinks and this was happening somewhere else at the same time.

Photo-Sniper

The day they rescued all the chilean miners.

It was on my birthday and I dont think i was ever so mesmerized by something like it before. The fact they dug a hole into the ground, went down with an elevator and saved every single last one of them was truly an amazing thing to witness and proved how powerful the human race can be.

Wow

leahyl

9/11 is obv a news story that sticks in most people's memories but also Beslan - the images of those poor children running out of the school and the footage inside the school with all the bombs set up around them - shocking stuff

35cent

9/11: I remember coming in from school with my mother telling that she was going to cancel the trip to New York we had planned in two months time. I asked her why, she pointed towards the TV and I saw one of the twin towers in flames. I thought a plane crashed into one of them and that was it but when I heard that another plane crashed into the other tower (and pictures from the Pentagon came through moments later) I knew it was a terrorist attack.


The boxing day tsunami: I remember being shocked by the widespread damage it caused. I was glued to the news for the whole week.

The start of the 2003 Iraq war: I was watching Baghdad being bombed to bits in the rec room in school being unable to believe what was happening due to the flimsy reasons for the war.

2011 Japan Earthquake/Tsunami: I woke to the radio hearing about widespread carnage and destruction in Japan. I thought I was dreaming because it sounded so surreal. I immediately went to turn on Sky News to confirm if it was actually happening or not.

Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004: I remember this because I hadn't seen so many US soldiers killed in one battle before.

Senna's death at the 1994 San Marino GP: I was only 4 at the time so I didn't understand what was going on but I wondered why they were focusing on that crash

Beslan School Massacre: I remember listening to that and the fallout of it on the radio on the way to school in the morning. It's something I won't forget for the rest of my days.

Great Thread BTW

hynesie08

Princess Diana, I remember the news popped up as a ticker on the children's tv channel/mtv

9/11 because i was in school when it happened

Michael Jackson, the news broke on a Thursday night, and i was heading out, anyone who was in fibbers that night will tell you how surreal it was.

Garth Brooks, I'll always remember this cause the stingy **** wouldn't release any footage for news reports, so for a week all we got was 3 5 second clips ad nauseum, "Garth stands in croker, garth runs up drum thing, Garth stands with guitar, rinse repeat"

ashisback15

9/11 I was in school and I remember one of the teachers from the other class came running into mine to tell my teacher that a plane had crashed into the twin towers.... It was also the day our family friends wake was as well...

The Malaysia airline that was shot down I was in captain Americas and my friend saw it on one of the TVs in the restaurant....

And the day my friend was killed in a car accident remember seeing it on the news and didn't relise it was him until I went into work that night and was told by my boss....

CINCLANTFLT

p38 wrote: »

The start of the first Gulf war watching the grainy night vision of tracer fire over Bagdad thinking this looks like a cool video-game (our generation huh).

I listened to it start on the radio before I went to sleep... There was a tv on in school the next morning which was not normal!

Areyouwell

Chernobyl was the first big & memorable TV event for me.

Sh1tbag OToole

The lad on the ladder taking down the Anglo sign, bet ya he never thought he'd see fame

Dandy Dandridge

Brian Dobson New Yaawk.

weldoninhio

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

The lad on the ladder taking down the Anglo sign, bet ya he never thought he'd see fame

Ah yeah, what was his name again??

Sh1tbag OToole

weldoninhio wrote: »

Ah yeah, what was his name again??

The Anglo fella

beks101

- Mary Robinson weeping at a press conference following a visit to Somalia during the 1992 famine. Speaking about the pain and the shame she felt that the rest of the world had turned a blind eye. I wouldn't have been more than six or seven at the time but I remember so vividly being taken aback, moved by her emotion and thinking this was a special woman. She really put Somalia's suffering on the international radar that day and given the work that she subsequently did for that and other African countries, I think that visit was pivotal and it stands out in my mind as an important news event that might have changed the world a bit and carved the path for her future career with the UN.

- Clinton on the Lewinsky affair and his ashen face as he went live on air with "I did not have sexual relations with that woman".

- Obama winning his first Presidential race. I worked in a newsroom at the time and was on live-show duty where I had to throw together a "best bits" tape of all the celebrations across the US. I remember the replay of a closeup of an elderly black man in the crowd who was overcome with emotion, tears streaming down his cheeks and lips trembling. Bawled my eyes out that day, thinking about what it must have meant for him to see a black president in his lifetime.

- 9/11. I was in 5th year and watched the second tower fall live on RTE on a TV that our teacher wheeled into the classroom during biology class. I then went home and binge-watched Sky News all evening. I didn't know much about anything at that age but knew this would be a day I'd remember forever.

calanus

Senna's crash in Imola 1994. I remember watching the event live but not really knowing anything about how bad the crash was... it was just another accident to an 8 year old. But when it was on the news that evening... that means it was a real thing. Somehow stuck with me hearing it on News at 10.

JillyQ

- Mary Robinson weeping at a press conference following a visit to Somalia during the 1992 famine. Speaking about the pain and the shame she felt that the rest of the world had turned a blind eye. I wouldn't have been more than six or seven at the time but I remember so vividly being taken aback, moved by her emotion and thinking this was a special woman. She really put Somalia's suffering on the international radar that day and given the work that she subsequently did for that and other African countries, I think that visit was pivotal and it stands out in my mind as an important news event that might have changed the world a bit and carved the path for her future career with the UN.

Was outside the count centre in the RDS on the night she elected as president.

Panda_Turtle

Just read this thread and ended up watching CNNs coverage from the day of 9-11 on youtube, crazy stuff.

Galwayguy35

For me it would be the coverage about Brendan O Donnell because we would have known him to see and and he was caught not too far from where I live.

It's very eerie passing the place where he killed the 3 people.

Asarlai

Lingua Franca wrote: »

Probably most that have been mentioned but I did stay up all night watching the UK general election results in 1997 - I hadn't intended to but they got so entertaining that we couldn't tear ourselves away. One smug Tory grin falling away after another.

God, it was glorious. I still fire up this highlight from time to time:

Jeez. Seven minutes of my life wasted. I watched the whole YouTube clip just to see a boring election result.

lazygal

The murder of James Bulger and the subsequent trial. I was the same age as the two boys who killed him and I'll always remember how I didn't really understand what had happened but I knew it was horrific. Especially the Mothercare cctv footage.

petrolcan

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

A lot of negative news in this thread, I think I'll add some positivity

I distinctly remember the very happy day that the absolute satanic cocksucker that was Margaret Thatcher died, I hope she rots in hell and deep throats the devils dick for all eternity. That will be all.

My, aren't you lovely.

Lingua Franca

Asarlai wrote: »

Jeez. Seven minutes of my life wasted. I watched the whole YouTube clip just to see a boring election result.

My apologies, I read the title as "What news coverage will you always remember" instead of "Post things Asarlai will find entertaining". I don't know how I managed to make that mistake.

The attacks in Norway. I remember first reading about the bombing and being shocked by that, then hours later the news about the massacre on the island.

The Dark Knight Returns shootings.

Diana's death was a huge one, because it was the first time I ever encountered a single news story being reported on almost every channel.

heldel00

Omagh bombing.
Was only a teenager and remember being frightened at relatively close proximity to my home.

anna080

anna080 wrote: »

For me it was when Holly and Jessica went missing and all the subsequent coverage that followed. It was so heartbreaking to watch. Two gorgeous little girls.

Yeah, I remember that quite well. I was still in primary school when it happened, and became quite obsessed with it. Was so scary. The poor girls!

Also remember when princess Diana died. Especially because I wanted to watch Sabrina The Teenage With but it was cancelled due to breaking news

I remember 9/11 quite well too. Was in primary school for that also. Our principal came into class to tell us.

My earliest news memory is actually when Michael Jackson was all over the news about child sexual abuse allegations. I would have only been about 3 or 4! I was a huge fan of his and I remember asking my Dad why he was on the news. All I got was "he has been a very naughty boy"...ha!

Outkast_IRE

9/11 , i took the day off school and was just flicking through the channels, was watching it live when the 2nd plane struck, and the towers came down.

tallus

1989 Raw Video: Man vs. Chinese tank Tiananmen square: https://youtu.be/YeFzeNAHEhU

Dude has balls.

Mint Sauce

The death of Princes Diana. Even though I was 16, its one the first times I remember wall to wall coverage on a news event.

wp_rathead

Omagh Bombing
9/11
Norwegian massacre
Fritzel being caught
Roy Keane leaving Saipan

Sunnyisland

The most vivid of the news programes for me was when the dublin bombings exploded in 1974,I was 12 at the time but can still recall the panic and helplessness that we all went through,rte was giving as much breaking news as it could and my mother was in a stress as my sister worked then in dunnes stores Henry St, my sister was ok but my aunty was killed in the bombing.

There have been other stories to

Iranian hostage siege in London
Bobby sands death been broadcast
The attempted assasination of the pope and Ronald Reagan
This was all before sky/cnn news...

Gmol

9/11
Hillsborough,
Bradford stadium fire.
Phil lynotts death being announced

Jimbob1977

Born in 1977.... Memories from 1985 onwards

Heysel
Challenger
Hurricane Charlie
Herald of Free Enterprise (Zeebrugge)
Lockerbie
Chernobyl
Milltown Cemetery attack/corporals murders
Tianamen Square
Funeral of Ayatollah Khomenei (2m mourners)
Ceaucescu execution on Christmas Day
Hillsbrough Disaster
Berlin Wall
Generals coup in Russia (prevented by Yeltsin)
Desert Storm/Gulf War
Oklahoma City bombing
Rwandan genocide
Death of Diana
Omagh bombing
September 11th
Indian Ocean tsunami
Disappearance of Madeline McCann