Watch Reeling in the Years Season 6 Episode 1 Online

The new series of REELING IN THE YEARS opens with the stories and the soundtrack of the year 2010, when Ireland was hit by freezing weather in January: temperatures dropped to -16.3 degrees in the coldest spell for almost fifty years. David Cameron replaced Labour’s Gordon Brown as Prime Minister. In Haiti, an earthquake killed an estimated 222,000 people and left more than 2 million others homeless. 2010 was the year of the EU-IMF bailout. As massive spending cuts and big tax rises failed to solve rapidly spiralling national debt, Ireland’s economic crash reached crisis point in November, and the government sought an economic rescue package of €67.5 billion from international financial authorities.