Live Aid at 40: Tom Dunne and Irish Examiner readers share their memories 

Tom Dunne's piece on Live Aid sparked a flood of fond recollections from readers. (Scroll to the end to see them)

Bob Geldof and other stars on stage at Wembley in an image from the BBC documentary, Live Aid at 40.

I won’t hear a bad world said. 40 years on, haters gotta hate, gripers gotta gripe and all that, the picking of holes is inevitable. It’s what the internet does. It would cancel Mother Teresa if it got time. But Live Aid was a brilliant, brilliant thing.

Anyone doubting this should watch the part in the BBC documentary series, Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World, where an Irish nurse tells a dad that his four-year-old daughter is passed saving. It is too late for this little one, she says as gently as she can. Amongst so many similarly stricken children it appears inevitable.