Reeling In The Years

Billy Ocean

Shelga wrote: »

So unbelievably mental! :pac: I don’t think I could name 2 of his songs!

if the concert was in my local GAA pitch I'd have no interest,couldn't get over 400,000 tickets been sold

Billy Ocean

1st show of this run not to focus on financial downturn, alot of sport in it which was good, was in the Canaries for the Brazil Germany game, think they got 4 goals in 6 mins at 1 stage

breezy1985

Billy Ocean wrote: »

if the concert was in my local GAA pitch I'd have no interest,couldn't get over 400,000 tickets been sold

I thought queueing outside shops for tickets died out way before 2014. Lots of people wanting notice and there was suddenly a lot of outraged fans I knew who had never mentioned Garth Brooks before

Might have missed it but was there no mention of Ireland’s 6 nations win 2014?

I saw the bit about O’Driscoll retiring alright

Declan A Walsh

Batrachotox wrote: »

Might have missed it but was there no mention of Ireland’s 6 nations win 2014?

I saw the bit about O’Driscoll retiring alright

It was mentioned immediately before O'Driscoll retiring.

Declan A Walsh

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

It was mentioned immediately before O'Driscoll retiring.

Ah grand thanks, must have been getting the tea at that point

Always been bemused by the Garth Brooks thing. How did he manage to sell that many tickets in the first place. I don't know anyone who listens to him.

LordBasil

Deleted User wrote: »

Always been bemused by the Garth Brooks thing. How did he manage to sell that many tickets in the first place. I don't know anyone who listens to him.

It could be a case that you don't know anyone who will admit to listening to Garth Brooks. :P

Surprised they left out the 2 Malaysian Airlines Plane Crashes - they were both huge stories at the time.

Shelga

Shelga wrote: »

How the **** is the ice bucket challenge 7 years ago!

Time has sped up because every year feels indistinguishable from each other as we all live in a constantly overstimulated distracted state due to smartphones and modern technology and the fact fashions dont seem to have changed much in 7 or 8 years. I find for different events of the last decade my guess for when it happened can be wrong by up to 3 or 4 years. In my mind 2013 onwards feels like "nowadays", 2008 - 2012 feels like its own era (recession era but smartphones not ubiquitious yet, and fashions hadnt yet become all tight-fitting with *those* haircuts on lads yet) and 2007 backwards is like the old slower world, looks really primitive now.

tadgho

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Good old Garth. He loves Ireland so much and was happy to do one gig except then one gig became three gigs and three gigs became five gigs and all of a sudden it was all five or nothing with Ireland loving Garth. A shambles from the promoters and the GAA.

Nothing to do with the GAA at all! Promoters selling tickets for gigs without a license due to planning laws was pure stupidity.

breezy1985

tadgho wrote: »

Nothing to do with the GAA at all! Promoters selling tickets for gigs without a license due to planning laws was pure stupidity.

I don't get the fight behind it whatsoever .Promoter was completely in the wrong

PTH2009

tadgho wrote: »

Nothing to do with the GAA at all! Promoters selling tickets for gigs without a license due to planning laws was pure stupidity.

Yeah it was a **** up in that regard and he should go just been given his original 2 gigs and tough **** if fans couldn't get tickets. The Dublin council guy should of said 'ah lads 5/4 shows is OTT and they will not be permitted and don't put tickets on sale for them' but nope it got dragged out

Garth Brooks behaviour through it all was pathetic with some of this comments been outrageous. 'Come on Irish governer let's the people dance' , 'like having to choose between his children' etc

All these years He's still adiment to do the 5 Croke Park shows but he can't get it in his head it's not possible with our licensing laws

breezy1985

PTH2009 wrote: »

Yeah it was a **** up in that regard and he should go just been given his original 2 gigs and tough **** if fans couldn't get tickets

Garth Brooks behaviour through it all was pathetic with some of this comments been outrageous. 'Come on Irish governer let's the people dance' , 'like having to choose between his children' etc

All these years He's still adiment to do the 5 Croke Park shows but he can't get it in his head it's not possible with our licensing laws

If he loves Ireland that much why doesn't he come back and play his 5 gigs all over the country.
Ide say he loved the controversy and there's no better advertising than getting debated in a parliament. Sales of his albums and official cowboy hats probably went through the roof thanks to all them fools running round acting like children in the ticket shops

PTH2009

breezy1985 wrote: »

If he loves Ireland that much why doesn't he come back and play his 5 gigs all over the country.
Ide say he loved the controversy and there's no better advertising than getting debated in a parliament. Sales of his albums and official cowboy hats probably went through the roof thanks to all them fools running round acting like children in the ticket shops

Yeah and he made enough bucks from his tour by just doing places in the States. The hypercrete even done some mantee shows (although it would be a nightmare for an outdoor show). He could easily come over and do a few 3Arena shows or as you suggested tour the whole country like Bruce Springsteen and Ed Sheeran did

The Garth Brooks World Tour Grossings
2014: $51.0 million from 51 shows
2015: $114.9 million from 120 shows
2016: $97.0 million from 102 shows
2017: $101.4 million from 93 shows
Total available grossing: $364.3 million from 366 shows.

He then went on to a Stadium Tour in 2019

irishfeen

Love Reeling in the Years but just one question, do they intentionally leave out some big murder cases which would have been massive news for months?

Such cases as the Wayne O'Donoghue murder trial got no mention whatsoever AFAIK ... is this done on purpose to protect families I wonder?

breezy1985

irishfeen wrote: »

Love Reeling in the Years but just one question, do they intentionally leave out some big murder cases which would have been massive news for months?

Such cases as the Wayne O'Donoghue murder trial got no mention whatsoever AFAIK ... is this done on purpose to protect families I wonder?

Hard to know. I think they might have had the scissor sisters murder on the show and definitely had all the murdering the priests and nuns done

L1011

They very rarely cover that sort of content.

If it's something that has had future ramifications afterwards it goes in. Even a messy trial like that one mentioned doesn't really come up again after its over.

irishfeen

L1011 wrote: »

They very rarely cover that sort of content.

If it's something that has had future ramifications afterwards it goes in. Even a messy trial like that one mentioned doesn't really come up again after its over.

Thanks never really thought of it that way, I suppose they have to be very careful covering such trials.

coinop

Each year will hold a different significance for everyone, filled with personal triumphs and tragedies. Perhaps you remember a particular year for the time you got married, went off to college, had a wonderful holiday abroad, the birth of a child or even the more sorrowful events such as the death of a loved one. At the end of the day, RITY is just one RTE editor's idea of what constituted as a significant event that year. I'm personally baffled at some of the choices that were obviously shoe-horned in for politically correct reasons (women's camogie making the cut? I bet even the players barely remember it) but some of the choices are very revealing of the bubble RTE staff operate in (the continual adoration of Obama being a prime example).

I agree with previous posters that the disappearance of the MH370 plane was a glaring omission. The whole Garth Brooks saga must have passed me by, as did most of the sports stories.

Declan A Walsh

coinop wrote: »

Each year will hold a different significance for everyone, filled with personal triumphs and tragedies. Perhaps you remember a particular year for the time you got married, went off to college, had a wonderful holiday abroad, the birth of a child or even the more sorrowful events such as the death of a loved one. At the end of the day, RITY is just one RTE editor's idea of what constituted as a significant event that year. I'm personally baffled at some of the choices that were obviously shoe-horned in for politically correct reasons (women's camogie making the cut? I bet even the players barely remember it) but some of the choices are very revealing of the bubble RTE staff operate in (the continual adoration of Obama being a prime example).

I agree with previous posters that the disappearance of the MH370 plane was a glaring omission. The whole Garth Brooks saga must have passed me by, as did most of the sports stories.

While I would agree with much of what you are saying, the Garth Brooks story was a big deal at the time. There was a bit of hysteria doing the rounds about going to see Garth Brooks. Many ticket holders were not of course genuine fans, although there were plenty of those around at the time too. Some saw it as an idea for a good night out, and the idea just caught on. So, when the whole sorry saga unraveled with planning permission issues, maximum number of concerts that could be held in Croke Park, and Garth's refusal to compromise, this was a major news story at the time. The fact that I could only name two songs by him off the top of my head, and maybe three if I thought about it, is neither here nor there. Or the fact that I had no interest in going to see him perform!

breezy1985

coinop wrote: »

Each year will hold a different significance for everyone, filled with personal triumphs and tragedies. Perhaps you remember a particular year for the time you got married, went off to college, had a wonderful holiday abroad, the birth of a child or even the more sorrowful events such as the death of a loved one. At the end of the day, RITY is just one RTE editor's idea of what constituted as a significant event that year. I'm personally baffled at some of the choices that were obviously shoe-horned in for politically correct reasons (women's camogie making the cut? I bet even the players barely remember it) but some of the choices are very revealing of the bubble RTE staff operate in (the continual adoration of Obama being a prime example).

I agree with previous posters that the disappearance of the MH370 plane was a glaring omission. The whole Garth Brooks saga must have passed me by, as did most of the sports stories.

Come on now do you actually believe this

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

coinop wrote: »

The whole Garth Brooks saga must have passed me by,

You're talking trout. Garth Brooks fiasco was everywhere for the bones of 2 months, no way you missed it. I remember at the time, garth brooks and water charges were on the news seemingly every night.

breezy1985

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup wrote: »

You're talking trout. Garth Brooks fiasco was everywhere for the bones of 2 months, no way you missed it. I remember at the time, garth brooks and water charges were on the news seemingly every night.

He's just being spiteful because the show has things he doesn't like

The water charges protests got very ugly at times. Petrol bombing their vans and the likes. Yet it was fairly glossed over in that episode, I thought, all things considered.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

I've said it since the start, if water charges were free for medical card holders like most other things, you wouldn't have heard much protest.

Atlantic Dawn

Deleted User wrote: »

The water charges protests got very ugly at times. Petrol bombing their vans and the likes. Yet it was fairly glossed over in that episode, I thought, all things considered.

As was the part about who the contracts to fit the water meters were given to :pac:

coinop

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup wrote: »

You're talking trout. Garth Brooks fiasco was everywhere for the bones of 2 months, no way you missed it. I remember at the time, garth brooks and water charges were on the news seemingly every night.

I suppose that explains it. You get your news from RTE, I don't. I don't watch RTE for anything, not even RITY. I watch a pirated rip online. I normally spend my Friday nights out socialising with friends while you're sat at home watching the RTE canteen on the Late Late. Tell me - do they still do the misery hour?

How do you know someone doesn’t watch RTÉ……?

Say Your Number

There was at least 15,000 posts on this site about the Brooks saga, including this thread complaining about the amount of coverage it got, would have been completely bizarre if it got no mention at all.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057245399

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057143265&page=417

Declan A Walsh

coinop wrote: »

I suppose that explains it. You get your news from RTE, I don't. I don't watch RTE for anything, not even RITY. I watch a pirated rip online. I normally spend my Friday nights out socialising with friends while you're sat at home watching the RTE canteen on the Late Late. Tell me - do they still do the misery hour?

I think it's safe to say that the whole hysteria about Garth Brooks performing in Croke Park was all over the media, and not just RTE. It's amazing that none of your friends mentioned it any stage, even if it was just to laugh or give out about it!

Blisterman

Anyone else find the choice of musical performances to be a bit odd this series? Every episode has at least 1 or 2 quite long clips of some singer songwriter performing quite bland music on the late late show or something like it.
At least in previous years, there was usually something visually interesting about the performances, to make it worth showing.

On the plus side, at least they've stopped including a long section about the Eurovision in every single episode.

AlmightyCushion

I had friends who weren't living in Ireland for years who knew about it.

breezy1985

Blisterman wrote: »

Anyone else find the choice of musical performances to be a bit odd this series? Every episode has at least 1 or 2 quite long clips of some singer songwriter performing quite bland music on the late late show or something like it.
At least in previous years, there was usually something visually interesting about the performances, to make it worth showing.

On the plus side, at least they've stopped including a long section about the Eurovision in every single episode.

Was that not always the case. Off the top of my head I can remember U2, Boyzone and Tom Dunnes band all on the Late Late and the used show Big Tom and the likes on variety shows.


Eurovision should only ever get in if we win it

Say Your Number

Republic of Ireland winning a football match, remember what that feels like.

Say Your Number

Plenty of downbeat Irish music acts around.

dirkmeister

The music has been seriously underwhelming.

Say Your Number

Ah blasphemy!

castletownman

Must have been a fairly uneventful year if they included three Irish music segments, one of which I don't remember at all.

And a completely average film where nothing happens!

Say Your Number

Last day of 6 Nations was mental that year.

martingriff

I thought the Berkley balcony accident and the Hesbo attack were later

Say Your Number

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WQ4dimDx30

castletownman

Say Your Number

So next week

Euro 2016
Olympics
Pokemon Go

Can't remember a whole lot else happening.......

DrSerious3

I have never said a bad word about Reeling in the Years but that was surely the worst episode ever. Three forgettable Irish songs (videos, not just audio) and three segments which surely took up half the programme on their own (referendum, climate change, refugee crisis).

StevenToast

That was a dreadful episode...really poor music selection

jojofizzio

Say Your Number wrote: »

So next week

Euro 2016
Olympics
Pokemon Go

Can't remember a whole lot else happening.......

Rio Olympics.....edit.....so asleep after tonight’s episode I didn’t even see you mentioned them....

Burt Renaults

Say Your Number wrote: »

So next week

Euro 2016
Olympics
Pokemon Go

Can't remember a whole lot else happening.......

The deaths of David Bowie, Prince and George Michael.

thesandeman

Would I be right in thinking that RITY is the only programme on Saorview that doesn't have an ad break during the show?
Even BBC programmes that are shown on RTE, Virgin etc manage to be edited to fit ads in.

Pussyhands

These episodes aren't very good.

Who the hell is SOAK? Never heard of her and the song is terrible.

Ladies GAA finals? Empty stadiums...no one cares

The Brooklyn film? That was clearly only added because the topic was a young irish person heading to the USA, which led into the Berkley tragedy and it had a tearjerker song from the film...

Gavin James's song - don't remember it at all and it's rubbish.

Prince Charles coming to Ireland and shaking hands with Gerry Adams....forgettable

Pussyhands

Say Your Number wrote: »

So next week

Euro 2016
Olympics
Pokemon Go

Can't remember a whole lot else happening.......

Regency shooting

Trump winning