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A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

SEPTEMBER 11 ANNIVERSARY
S 25 years on from 9/11: How New York’s firefighters paid the highest price on September 11
From Father Mychal Judge to the 343 firefighters who died, the FDNY’s losses reshaped a department and its enduring bond

Fri, 11 Sep, 2026

25 years on from 9/11: The profound loss suffered by New York’s Irish community
S 25 years on from 9/11: The profound loss suffered by New York’s Irish community
From Ground Zero to memorials in Kildare and Cork, Ireland has a deep connection to those lost on September 11

Fri, 11 Sep, 2026

Florida State v Boston College
S 25 years on from 9/11: 'Man in the red bandana' symbolises courage and selflessness amid tragedy
Welles Crowther made three trips to the 78th floor of the South Tower on the day to save 18 people

Fri, 11 Sep, 2026

A Quarter Century Later, September 11 Remains Embedded In The Fabric Of New York
S 25 years on from 9/11: Firefighters and volunteers took solace from 'little chapel that stood' among ruins
Firefighters, police officers and volunteers found food, rest, prayer and companionship at the Manhattan church beside Ground Zero

Fri, 11 Sep, 2026

US Plane/Burning towers
Irish Examiner view: Life has not been the same since 9/11
This Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Ahead of coverage of that anniversary in the 'Irish Examiner', we pause to take the long view on that watershed moment

Wed, 09 Sep, 2026

September 11 Retrospective
Share your story: Where were you during the 9/11 terrorist attacks?
To mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks, we want to hear your memories from September 11, 2001

Tue, 08 Sep, 2026

AFGHANISTAN-WAR-ANTI TALIBAN
Thirty years, two invasions and one unanswered question: How are the Taliban still there?
Three decades after the Taliban first seized Kabul, the movement is back in power following 20 years of Western intervention

Sat, 29 Aug, 2026

Newport Rhode Island
Jennifer Horgan: My children will never see America as I did — the romance is over
Once the dream destination for Irish students, America now feels distant and disillusioning — and our cultural ties are fraying

Wed, 28 May, 2025

'I was sure it was a terrorist attack': Cork 9/11 survivor caught up in Heathrow chaos
'I was sure it was a terrorist attack': Cork 9/11 survivor caught up in Heathrow chaos
Having survived the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, Deirdre Rock is only back flying again recently. Of the Heathrow chaos, she says: 'It could always have been worse'

Fri, 21 Mar, 2025

Author interview: A novel about the women who leave — and the ones who stay
Author interview: A novel about the women who leave — and the ones who stay
To write her book, Airey herself had to do some leaving of her own — moving from London back to her ancestral home in West Cork

Sat, 15 Feb, 2025

Biden administration asks court to block 9/11 plea deals
Biden administration asks court to block 9/11 plea deals
The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants that would spare them the risk of the death penalty.

Tue, 07 Jan, 2025

Firefighters plant ground zero tree at Cork 9/11 memorial
Firefighters plant ground zero tree at Cork 9/11 memorial
Some 90 NY and Irish firefighters also raised funds for a charity named in honour of a Waterford girl during their cycle from Dublin on the 23rd anniversary of the attacks

Wed, 11 Sep, 2024

New York firefighters cycling from Dublin to Kinsale's 9/11 memorial garden
New York firefighters cycling from Dublin to Kinsale's 9/11 memorial garden
The Kinsale remembrance garden was established by local woman Kathleen Murphy who had been working as a nurse in Manhattan for four decades when the terrorist attack occurred

Fri, 06 Sep, 2024

A U.S. SOLDIER WATCHES A STATUE OF PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN FALL IN CENTRAL BAGHDAD
Book review: Fisk’s sobering view of the Middle East bites with truth
'Night of Power' lays bare, with a cynical tone, the events that have transpired in the Middle East and how the West’s lengthy oppression of the Muslim world influenced the instability and atrocities there

Fri, 23 Aug, 2024

AERIAL VIEW OF WORLD TRADE CENTER DISASTER SITE.
September 11 victim’s remains identified nearly 23 years later
John Ballantine Niven was a 44-year-old executive at Aon Risk Services, an insurance firm on the 105th floor of tower two of the trade centre complex, according to obituaries at the time

Fri, 19 Jan, 2024

Corkman who survived 9/11 attack which killed his sister and niece passes away 
Corkman who survived 9/11 attack which killed his sister and niece passes away 
Ron Clifford, who was in his late 60s, died at his home in the US at the weekend

Sat, 16 Dec, 2023

TOPSHOT-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT
Letters to the Editor: Readers respond to the attacks on Israel, and on Gaza in Palestine
Irish Examiner readers write about the bloodshed in the Middle East including the roots of the conflict, how Ireland and the EU are responding, and how it is being reported by the media

Wed, 11 Oct, 2023

Rear view of high school students attending a class.
Letters to the Editor: Students will benefit from third-party assessment in State exams 
A teacher welcomes the restoration of impartial third-party assessment, while other readers look at issues including war in Ukraine and Israel's presence in the West Bank

Wed, 04 Oct, 2023

TV Licence
S Gareth O'Callaghan: TV licence will be consigned to the political Museum of Failed Agendas
It will rest alongside electronic voting machines, water meters, the bank bailout, the covid catastrophe, the black hole of healthcare, and brown envelopes: A swept-under the-carpet collection of failures, lead balloons, and lemons

Sat, 16 Sep, 2023

New York firefighters gather in Kinsale to remember fallen comrades
New York firefighters gather in Kinsale to remember fallen comrades
The garden, where 343 trees were planted, one for every firefighter killed in 9/11, was created by Irish nurse Kathleen Murphy who lived in New York City.

Thu, 24 Aug, 2023

9/11 firefighters to visit Ireland's unique 'living memorial' in Kinsale
9/11 firefighters to visit Ireland's unique 'living memorial' in Kinsale
Contingent of Irish American New York city fire department serving members coming to Ringfinnan Garden of Remembrance

Mon, 14 Aug, 2023

Maeve Higgins: On New York's subway, everyone in this great city is equal
Maeve Higgins: On New York's subway, everyone in this great city is equal
New Yorkers may have to look a little harder today for a sense of belonging, but it is all around in the old subway tunnels

Sat, 29 Jan, 2022

The Thanksgiving Turkey float during th
Fergus Finlay: Thanksgiving Day here? Let’s build three new hospitals instead
It would do us no harm at all to set aside a day a year when we reflect on what we’ve all been through, when we try to generate a sense of greater community — and that day should be February 1, writes Fergus Finlay.

Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

Sept 11 Pentagon
FBI releases newly declassified record on September 11 attacks
The 16-page document is a summary of an FBI interview undertaken in 2015 with a man who had frequent contact with Saudi nationals in the US who supported the first hijackers to arrive in the country before the attacks

Sun, 12 Sep, 2021

Sept 11 20th Anniversary
In Pictures: America pauses to reflect on country’s worst terrorist attack
Joe Biden joined former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at a memorial event in New York City, 20 years to the day since the Twin Towers fell

Sat, 11 Sep, 2021

Watch: Cork City Fire Brigade mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a minute's silence
Watch: Cork City Fire Brigade mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a minute's silence
People in the United States and around the world have been paying tribute to those who were killed this day 20 years ago

Sat, 11 Sep, 2021

Sept 11 Biden
America marks 20 years since the horror of 9/11 attacks
Observances are also planned at the two other sites where the 9/11 conspirators crashed the jets: the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania

Sat, 11 Sep, 2021

Maeve Higgins: How young Adama’s life crumbled after 9/11
Maeve Higgins: How young Adama’s life crumbled after 9/11
In 2005, Adama Bah became the youngest person, and the first woman, to be arrested and accused of terrorism by the US in their in-country ‘War on Terror’. The case was bogus and she was never charged.

Sat, 11 Sep, 2021

US Plane/Sky grab 3
Podcast Corner: Shows that dig deep on the 9/11 attacks 
Twenty years on from those fateful events in New York and elsewhere, various podcasts offer insight into the day itself, and the consequences 

Sat, 11 Sep, 2021

US Plane Victims/Clifford McCourt
Cork family’s 9/11 grief will never fade
Cork-born Ruth Clifford McCourt was taking four-year-old daughter Juliana on a holiday to Disneyland on September 11, 2001, when their flight was hijacked, writes Pádraig Hoare

Sat, 11 Sep, 2021

TO GO WITH AFP STORY "Americans mark 9/1
Joe Duffy, Mary McAleese, Bertie Ahern and others share their memories of 9/11
The 2001 September 11 attacks were arguably the JFK moment of our times. Twenty years on, Mary McAleese, Joe Duffy, Bertie Ahern and others share their memories of the day

Sat, 11 Sep, 2021

WORLD TRADE FIREBALL
Irish Examiner view: The day the world turned upside down
20 years on from 9/11

Sat, 11 Sep, 2021

New York Twenty Years After 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Remembering the four New York GAA men who died on 9/11
Four New York GAA men who were tragically killed at the World Trade Centre in New York City 20 years ago will be remembered on Saturday at Croke Park

Fri, 10 Sep, 2021

WORLD TRADE FIREBALL
TP O’Mahony: Dark outcomes when religion and politics fuse
Rulers have always been cognisant of the importance of having religion on their side, writes TP O’Mahony.

Fri, 10 Sep, 2021

Monday TV Tips: How the Irish Viking earns €50k a month; and the killing of Fr Niall Molloy is examined
Monday TV Tips: How the Irish Viking earns €50k a month; and the killing of Fr Niall Molloy is examined
— terrorists and heroic passengers in United 93 film

Mon, 06 Sep, 2021

Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan
‘Radical Islam’ still a first-order security threat, says Blair
“Radical Islam” continues to represent a “first-order security threat” 20 years after the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States, Tony Blair has warned.

Mon, 06 Sep, 2021

Afghanistan
Taliban claim victory in last Afghan province to resist their rule
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement, saying Panjshir was now under the control of Taliban fighters

Mon, 06 Sep, 2021

US citizens among passengers held on planes in Afghan airport, claims official
US citizens among passengers held on planes in Afghan airport, claims official
Conflicting accounts emerged about why the flights were not able to take off from the airport at Mazar-e-Sharif as pressure ramps up on the United States to help those left behind.

Mon, 06 Sep, 2021

Biden
Biden to mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 at three memorial sites
President Joe Biden will visit all three 9/11 memorial sites to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and pay his respects to the nearly 3,000 people killed that day.

Sat, 04 Sep, 2021

Biden
Joe Biden moves to declassify documents about September 11 attacks
The order directs the Justice Department and other executive branch agencies to begin a declassification review and requires that declassified documents be released over the next six months

Fri, 03 Sep, 2021

Pentagon Austin
US may need to liaise with Taliban on strikes against IS, says military chief
Marine General Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, has described the US relationship with the Taliban during the evacuation as 'very pragmatic and very businesslike', saying they helped secure the airport.

Wed, 01 Sep, 2021

AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT
Last US troops exit Afghanistan to end America’s longest war
The United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit.

Mon, 30 Aug, 2021

Guantanamo Bali Bombings
Court hearing for three Guantanamo inmates accused over 2002 Bali bombings
It is merely the first step in what could be a long legal journey for a case that involves evidence tainted by CIA torture, an issue that has caused other war crimes cases to languish for years at Guantanamo.

Mon, 30 Aug, 2021

Afghanistan
Homes hit by rockets fired at Kabul airport amid US withdrawal
Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul’s international airport struck a nearby neighbourhood on Monday, the eve of the deadline for American troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. It was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt.

Mon, 30 Aug, 2021

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