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3rd October 2023
11:49am BST
Fiona Frawley
I spent most of my childhood on the news pages 103 onwards practicing how to read the news so I’m actually saddened by this ? https://t.co/ZchPTaJMlW
— Shane Beatty ?️ (@ShaneBeattyNews) October 2, 2023
Actually ringing home from abroad and asking your da to check page 222.. RIP Aertel. ( you kids eh!! .. look it up :) ) pic.twitter.com/Her1IiqkXn
— Buzz O'Neill-Maxwell (@buzzoneill) October 2, 2023
One of my service users who has dementia loves #Aertel even though I can google it in seconds whatever he wants to know, he will happily spend a half hour up and down the pages and thats okay so I get it's irrelevant to today but I'm sorry for him. https://t.co/YDUVt3jgbW
— Trisha H (@TrishaNHam) October 2, 2023
RIP Aertel, thanks for all the news articles I plagiarised from you for my English homework xx https://t.co/iddTsXoPqY
— Róisín (@ALilBitRoisin) October 2, 2023
In the late 90s I submitted a handwritten review of an @RL_Stine 'Goosebumps' book for publication on Aertel. It was published (I have no idea if it still exists). I received an Aertel t-shirt that was about 6 sizes too big for me. Friends, I did it for that t-shirt. https://t.co/V8sRkRwRJS
— Patrick Huff (@Mr_PHuff) October 2, 2023
My earliest memory of being a political numbers nerd was the Sunday morning of the 1997 Irish general election going onto aertel to see the overnight final counts of the Louth constituency, those elected in yellow, eliminated in red. I had just turned 10 ?? https://t.co/bWxY2gtfjt
— John Sheridan (@CllrJohnS) October 2, 2023
I’m not sure my dad was ever happier than the day flight info came to Aertel. We lived near the airport and were always collecting arriving family. No more waiting in the terminal. Just sit on the couch until Aertel said ‘landed’ and then head to the airport. Magic ✨ https://t.co/1rOxRUAHkP
— James Raftery ?????️??️⚧️ (@james_raftery) October 2, 2023
My version of ‘how often do you think about the Roman Empire’ is ‘how often do you think about how every Aertel headline was exactly 33 characters long’.
The answer is ‘more often than I should be admitting in a forum such as this’. pic.twitter.com/R90voLfyMY — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) October 2, 2023
Aertel the musical sounds like a no brainer. https://t.co/vDODArc68v
— Luke 'Ming' Flanagan (@lukeming) October 2, 2023
What are your favourite memories of Aertel? Did you have a go-to page number? Let us know! Header image via RTÉ Archives READ NEXT: - Patrick Kielty buys £5mil fixer-upper home neighbouring Harry Styles in LondonAertel announces its own imminent demise.
(Captured by @superwonderstar) https://t.co/l4iwJ9y1DD pic.twitter.com/IyjQTkvX5O — Guesser (@ZXGuesser) October 2, 2023
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