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  • The Noughties: My Review

    Millennium Dome 1999
    Millennium Dome NYE 1999

    So Friday sees the start of a new year and a new decade. Thank God 2009 is over, I don’t think I’m the only one who thinks its crap.

    I spent a month in hospital, thanks to a blood clot just below my knee that really wasn’t treated properly at the start. It turned into a DVT and I end up on crutches for a staggering 29 weeks. I’m off them 4 weeks today, I’m still getting used to walking around.

    So when I was feeling sorry for myself the rest of the population of Ireland were losing their jobs and going on the dole. When I was 18, I too joined the dole queue, the country was also in a pretty crap state but people still had hope. This time round though people seem extremely down.

    A lot of things have happened this decade, looking back at world events it was the decade that changed the world. 9/11 sorted that, along with 7/7 bombings in London in 2005.Since the guy tried to blow up a plane on Christmas Day, we’re supposedly going to have to strip down to our underpants to board a plane.

    I’m writing this on my blackberry, phones could just about SMS a decade ago. Now we’re always connected, if I didn’t have the BBerry I’d be completely lost.

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  • 9/11 Eight Years On…

    I was watching TV last night. A documentary was on about 9/11. It was made from all sorts of footage compiled to give a real-time account.

    It’s strange. It was a horrible thing to have happened but it was also compulsive viewing.

    Eight years on, its one of the questions people ask ‘Where were you when you heard about the Twin Towers?’

    I was at work in Dublin, just back from lunch (which I had sneakily taken longer than I should) and was sitting down to an afternoon of inputting CD orders into the company database.

    Lar, he who always had the news first, (he had a sneaky TV set up because he needed it for fixing the video recorders) went round the building informing everyone. It was about 14.15.

    I immediately ran to the TV, not believing the images I was looking at on the TV.

    I emailed a friend who lives in New York, wanting to make sure they were OK. I also felt the deepest guilt ever.

    The day before I had sent my friend an email. I had been caught in a fire 11 months before and nearly died. I had sent an email which was almost a soul cleaning or acceptance of what happened me. I had thought this was terribly important until I saw the TV.

    The horror, shock and human suffering I saw that day will never take away from what I had gone through, but it made me realise I literally was a tiny dot on the planet.

    A lot of people lost their lives that day. A lot of people are still feeling the effects of September 11, none of them will ever be forgotten.