Top 10 moments of Irish television

THE inventor of television, John Logie Baird, was born in Helensburgh near Glasgow 125 years ago today. His invention was arguably the single most important of the past 100 years.

It brought us mass communication in an instant, made our countries smaller and gave us an excuse to curl up together on cold nights. In Ireland, television has documented and even created some of our most important memories. Here are my top 10 TV moments.

The Pope (1979)