On Monday 31 October 1977, an RTÉ News crew went out to Bray, Co. Wicklow. Children in homemade costumes and masks were going from house to house asking for fruit and nuts. Others were dragging firewood together for bonfires that were, strictly speaking, illegal. RTÉ...
The announcement itself was one sentence long. On Friday 16 October 1998, six months after the Good Friday Agreement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded that year’s Peace Prize to John Hume and David Trimble “for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the...
The sports pages of Tuesday 26 September 2000 had a quieter job than most Olympic mornings. They had to take a Monday the country had already lived through the television, and set it down in column width. At 10:55 a.m. Irish time on Monday 25 September, Stadium...
The sports pages of Monday 20 September 1982 had a job Irish newspapers are not often given. They had to take a Sunday the country had already, in its bones, awarded to Kerry, and set it in type the other way round. Sunday had been the All-Ireland football final at...
With another year gone and everyone looking back on the year that was, we at Memorable Moments thought why not look back just a little further than that. It’s always interesting to look back on the last 12 months but it can even more interesting to look back at...
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