It's a great discovery in fundamental physics and essential for our understanding of the world. One of the biggest news of the decade I'd say. Predicted 50 years ago by Higgs on the sole basis of his theory, and confirmed today by experimental evidence. Fascinating.
The fact that there will be no immediate practical applications is irrelevant... there will be, for our sons and grandsons; think about the laser, they developed it in the 50's with very limited purposed in mind (spectrometry). Sixty years later even your washing machine has one somewhere ...
