Look, Ma, We’re On De Telly!

hanks to technology’s rapid progress on the interweb, our past has never been so present…

If you want to revisit your favourite Top Of The Pops moment, relive the Pope having a party in Phoenix Park, or see just how the front of The Shopping Basket used to look, the internet is there to take your hand back in time.

And, one fine day, the Guide’s own GGTV archives will provide a joyous trip or two down memory lane for those lucky schmucks who live in de future.

Or the past. Depending on which way you look at it.

It helps, of course, when those big institutions with dirty big archives to play with open their doors to the general public.

From The National Gallery of Ireland to Pathé News, it’s wonderful to see just how many parts of history’s jigsaw are available to us now.

Here, we turn our electric eye once more of our national broadcaster, RTE, and the many times over the decades they’ve swung by our neck of the ever-decreasing woods.

Mainly because we’re just a 20-minute drive from RTE HQ in Donnybrook. The lazy gits.

From Greystones National School embracing the uniform to 75-year-old Pat Kehoe doing his Leaving Cert, from the eco-warriors setting up camp in Glen Of The Downs to Garth Brooks doing an unplugged concert from the top of his van, there’s gold in dem der news clips.

Sister Germaine explains the new uniforms at Greystones National School whilst St David’s go book-hunting. Broadcast 2nd Sept 1985…