Ronald Reagan once said ‘Home is where they have to take you in’ — I like that idea.

MORE than 250 families of police and fire officers killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Centre are due to arrive in Ireland for a special holiday this year.

FBI officials have retraced their footsteps as far back as the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in the hope of finding any evidence which may provide a vital clue to the certain identity of the terrorists.

Rescue workers have told reporters in New York that the continuing fires are setting off ammunition.