It being a Good Friday, it was the only thing on the telly. Steve Daunt picks some other events that made us pause and remember.

Dennis Taylor won the world snooker crown in 1985

It was a Sunday night. The school bus would be at the door in under eight hours but there was no way people were moving. Sometime between midnight and  it came down to the very last ball of the very last frame.

Here’s what happened:

Queen rocked the world for 18 minutes at Live Aid

It was a feast of Rock’n’roll but all we wanted to know was how could Queen cope with the imposition of an 18 minute set.

This wasn’t coping. This was domination. This was pomp. This was Freddie.

Packie Bonner made that save in Italia 90

I can’t remember the rest of the match. But when it came to the shoot-out, sitting on the couch was never an option. Sprawled on the living room floor in front of the screen. The only way. And then this.

Nelson Mandela released from jail

He was a poster image, an image on a teeshirt but we never saw him in the flesh. What would he be like?

Sunday Lunch over we rushed to the screen. We saw Winnie first and then he was there. No longer the chubby face of our bed-sit posters but a frail grandfather who exuded serenity and love. Stunning..

Riverdance redefined being Irish

Ah yeah. A line of Irish Dancers. We’ve seen this before haven’t we?

Not on your life. Hot Hot Hot. Next stop boom town.

Brendan Smyth brings down a government

Who would have thought we would be running into pubs to look at Dail coverage? It gripped the nation as Dick Spring pulled the plug on his coalition with Albert Reynolds.

9/11

First we thought ‘accident’ but when the second plane hit, we knew we were watching history.

You saw your first iPhone

Be honest. You just said I WANT ONE.

The queen laying a wreath at garden of rememberance

So that’s what the Anglo-Irish agreement was about. It made perfect sense then.

Do you agree? Have you other occasions when world events collided with your life? Let us know below.