The Taoiseach has become the first international leader to visit Freedom Tower — the under-construction building on the site of the Twin Towers which came down in the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.

GLENN GANNON’S latest role has him dressed as a French nobleman, one of a group solemnly handing over the keys to Bologna to Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in the final series of The Tudors. It is a long, long way from the time he lived on the streets of Dublin, drinking himself into oblivion.

A FORMER police officer in the North who served with three colleagues shot dead by the IRA has become the first SDLP councillor to join Sinn Féin since the Assembly elections, it emerged yesterday.