Boxing: Boxing history will be made in Cork on Thursday night when the New York Fire Department enter the ring in Ireland for the first time.

New York firefighters who battled the Twin Towers terrorist attacks on 9/11 are among a contingent of boxers taking to the ring in a friendly tournament against gardaí and members of a Co Cork boxing club.

The New York Fire Department has said that it has been called to a report of a crane collapse in the city’s Queens borough.

The travelling party for the 2012 GAA GPA All-Stars Football Tour sponsored by Opel, which departs for New York tomorrow, has been confirmed.

A WOMAN died and three others, believed to be British tourists, were seriously injured after a helicopter crash in New York yesterday.

Protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan’s Financial District for more than two weeks say they have no intention of giving up, following mass arrests at the weekend.

THE All-Ireland football final. 82,300 spectators. The final whistle.

The mother of a New York fireman killed in the 9/11 terror attacks said he was very proud of his Irish roots after the family was presented with the first Certificate of Irish Heritage.

A tourist bus flipped on to its side and skidded into a sign post in New York on Saturday, killing 13 people and critically injuring six others, officials said.

THERE is a contrast between Europe and America but not a contradiction, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the joint houses of Congress yesterday.

HOLLYWOOD star George Clooney has been nominated for the Tipperary Peace Prize for his work on Darfur, it emerged today.

Hollywood star George Clooney has been nominated for the Tipperary Peace Prize for his work on Darfur, it emerged today.

Tom Cruise’s latest effort is not for the big screen. It is for the New York police, firefighters and paramedics of September 11.

US PRESIDENT George W Bush headed to the US Gulf Coast yesterday to confront a region where the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina were receding but anger and frustration still overflowed.

AMERICA grieved the victims of September 11 yesterday as the families of the dead recited their loved ones' names and messages of remembrance to a weeping crowd at the site where the World Trade Center once stood.

Transcripts documenting the horror and confusion among hundreds of firefighters and paramedics on September 11 were released today by the New York Fire Department.

A partially-constructed building collapsed in New York today, injuring at least four people.

Fireman’s son Paul McCartney and his wife have donated a painting from their private collection to the members of the New York Fire Department – and the subject is something likely very close to their hearts.

UP to a dozen New York firefighters have left their wives after falling in love with the widows of comrades killed during the September 11 attacks.

Up to a dozen New York firefighters have left their wives after falling in love with the widows of comrades killed on September 11, it emerged today.

Updates on some of the people in the spotlight in the days following the September 11 attacks:

RUDOLPH GIULIANI: New York City’s mayor, Giuliani was hailed as the man who calmed New Yorkers. Since leaving office in January he has been in high demand on the lecture circuit where he’s believed to earn as much as £65,000 per speech. He also has a £2m deal to write two books.

A leaked report says the response of the New York fire department to the September 11 attacks was plagued by a series of failures that could have cost lives.

The Taoiseach is in New York today for the annual St Patrick’s Day reception at the White House.

New York’s grieving firefighters were today dealt a fresh blow when it emerged that one of their fallen colleagues had been wrongly identified and would have to be reburied.

The widow of a firefighter who died in the World Trade Centre attack lost her father in the American Airlines crash in Queens.

George W Bush has braved warnings of a terror attack to start a baseball game in front of more than 60,000 people.

Tears flowed and smoke billowed in the shadow of the collapsed World Trade Centre tonight as thousands of people gathered to remember those they lost in the terror attacks on September 11.

A fourth Irish person has been confirmed as among the US terrorist attack fatalities.

The New York fire department have suffered heavy losses.