Oct 31, 1978: How privileged we were

Watching those re-runs on RTÉ of Reeling in the Years serves as a graphic reminder of just how much things have changed in modern Ireland — in the majority of cases — for the better.

Be it sport, politics, religion, changing values or a catalogue of tragic events, the images depicted from the outset of television coverage in the early 1960s, right through the decades, trigger a stark reminder for people of my generation of what things were like back then.