CHOOSE to get married on a cliff off the Irish coast.

The scene is one which would have embarrassed and delighted Con Houlihan in equal measure as the funeral Mass for the legendary and much-loved journalist saw a gathering of his admirers and devotees in the guise of former newspaper colleagues and readers.

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.