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On this week: "Young people of Ireland, I love you" (opens the original)
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Welcome to On This Week, where we delve into the standout stories from the years gone by, featuring standout news stories, major sporting events, and pop culture highlights that helped shape Irish life. Here's your dose of Irish history from September 28th - October 4th. On 30 September 1979 Pope John Paul II celebrated a youth mass in Galway, where he gave the now iconic and most memorable quote of his visit when he declared "Young people of Ireland, I love you". The young congregation react wi
RTÉ Guide flashback: Boyzone on fame and fans in 1995 (opens the original)
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Every week we take a look in the RTÉ Guide archive, finding out what made its glossy pages in years gone by. On this week in 1995, Boyzone were the cover stars - and talked to Alan Corr about their growing fanbase. "When Ronan Keating left his house this morning they were still to be seen. Mikey Graham dropped home to tidy up alter his return from London that afternoon and there they were. Steve Gately, also fresh from Dublin Airport, saw them outside his house," wrote Corr. "They are the fans,
RTÉ Guide flashback: Victoria Smurfit becomes a leading lady (opens the original)
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Every week we take a look in the RTÉ Guide archives to check out the stories from years gone by. On this week in 1999, actor Victoria Smurfit was the cover star. Today Smurfit is perhaps best known for playing the tempestuous, glamorous Maud O'Hara in the hugely popular Disney series Rivals, based on the novel by Jilly Cooper. But in 1999 she was taking on what might have been her biggest leading role to date, as one of the new stars of the beloved Irish-set BBC show Ballykissangel. In an interv
RTÉ Guide flashback: Tom Cruise on his marriage to Nicole Kidman (opens the original)
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Every week we take a look in the RTÉ Guide archives to check out the stories from years gone by. On this week in 1996, the Guide's Michael Doherty went to Madrid for an exclusive interview with one of the biggest film stars in the world - the one and only Tom Cruise. But initially it looked like the interview might not happen.... "I'm sorry sir, I don't see your name here.' The scene is the Ritz Hotel in central Madrid. Inside, Tom Cruise is getting ready for a select round of interviews with me
RTÉ Guide flashback: Thanks for the memories, Jack Charlton (opens the original)
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Every week we take a look in the RTÉ Guide archives to check out the cover stories from years gone by. On this week thirty years ago, the Guide paid tribute to the much-loved Jack Charlton, who had resigned as manager of the Irish soccer team several months earlier. The cover, which tied in with a special edition of the television show Kenny Live dedicated to Jack, promised a look at "life since he left us" - us being the people of Ireland, who had become huge fans of the man who took the Republ
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