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Reeling in the Years 2012: Putin, Katie Taylor and Wagon Wheel Netflix arrived in Ireland and Cork ladies football team enjoyed success on top of success
Olympic gold for Katie Taylor in 2012
Sun, 25 Apr, 2021 - 21:55
Caroline Delaney
You think it s going to be a safe bit of nostalgia sure weren t we all hilarious pixie heads who barely knew what Netflix even was back then?
A look at how things have progressed over the years and at how we re all grown up now.
And then, bam, the programme name becomes more of a warning as we re the ones left reeling. Reeling in bafflement at how warning signs were there and nobody heeded. Reeling from the double, triple whammy of political, financial, and corporate jiggery-pokery that played out in such fateful ways.
Updated: 25 Apr 2021, 21:42
RTE viewers have said that Reeling in the Years make them cry every single time as they look back at 2012 highlights.
Tonight s episode of the popular RTE show featured the hits and headlines of 2012, when Wicklow’s Katie Taylor won boxing gold for Ireland at the London Olympics and singer Nathan Carter had a breakthrough hit with Wagon Wheel.
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In America, Barack Obama won a second term as US President.
It was also the year when the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground on the coast of Italy.
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner completed a world record freefall parachute jump from a height of 38.9km above the Earth, and NASA scientists celebrated the success of the Curiosity Rover mission to Mars.
Updated / Sunday, 25 Apr 2021
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Reeling In The Years 2012 features the hits and headlines of 2012, when Wicklow s Katie Taylor won boxing gold for Ireland at the London Olympics and singer Nathan Carter had a breakthrough hit with
In America, Barack Obama won a second term as US President. It was also the year when the ‘Costa Concordia’ cruise ship ran aground on the coast of Italy.
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner completed a world record freefall parachute jump from a height of 38.9km above the Earth, and NASA scientists celebrated the success of the ‘Curiosity Rover’ mission to Mars.
In Ireland, the death of Savita Halappanavar in University Hospital Galway became an immediate focus for demands to change the country’s strict abortion laws, written into the Constitution since 1983. There were several high-profile industrial disputes and sit-ins, including protests at Vita Cortex in Cork and Lagan Brick in Cavan.