Delia O’Callaghan spent 15 years building a successful life in the US but one day found herself behind bars. Colette Sheridan hears how she drew from her experience for her new book.

A man whose daughter and Cork-born wife were killed in the 9/11 attacks in New York has died of cancer in the US.

A Corkman whose sister and niece were killed in the Sep 11, 2001, attacks on New York is to give evidence in the trial of the men who masterminded the terrorist acts.

President Michael D Higgins adjusted the green, white, and orange ribbons on the wreath and bowed his head.

ONE of 10 children, Gabriel Walsh was brought up in poverty.

ORPHANED when his mother dies, Boston teenager Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormwald) moves to a small Midwest town to live with his uncle in Craig Brewer’s remake of Footloose (12A).

IT IS a decade since the 9/11 terrorist atrocity but their grief and pain endures, the void remains and they still await justice.

For Cork-born Ron Clifford, Osama Bin Laden’s death only reinforced his quest for justice on behalf of his sister Ruth and niece Juliana, who would have been 14 today. He spoke to John Riordan.

The killing of Osama bin Laden is a grim reminder of the outrages that were perpetrated in his and al-Qaida’s name in the US on September 11, 2001.

THE pedestrian who was killed by a falling tree in Dublin on Thursday evening was a mother of three who was looking forward to her 46th birthday.

AN Irishman whose sister and niece were killed in the attack on the Twin Towers had condemned the now cancelled plan by a US church to burn the Koran today as an act of madness that could have sparked a new 9/11.

Producers of hit US medical drama ER are still hopeful Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney will agree to return to the show - to help the programme "go out with style".

A GIRL described as a “teenage Paris Hilton” has failed in a bid to sue her parents for child support, it emerged today.

Controversial Dutch Prince Bernhard acknowledged he had two illegitimate daughters – one in France and another, previously unknown, in the United States - in an interview published posthumously today.

Former Dutch Queen Juliana, who presided over the dismantling of the centuries-old Dutch empire and witnessed the birth of a social revolution during her 31-year reign of the Netherlands, died today at the age of 94.

Brazilian World Cup winner Juninho has arrived at Middlesbrough for the start of his third spell with the Premier League club.

It is still unclear exactly how many Irish people are missing in the World trade Centre rubble.

The Cork family of two of the victims of the attacks on New York said talk of retaliation and the killing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan is wrong.

Fears are growing for the safety of three Irish people missing since the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on Tuesday.

President Mary McAleese today spoke for the country on the national day of mourning.

It has emerged that the best friend of an Irish woman killed in one of the hijacked planes had suffered a similar fate 18 minutes earlier in the first crash.

A lawyer in New York claims to know of at least 50 Irish men who may have been working at the World Trade Centre.

The number of Irish killed in the terror attacks on America may not be as high as first feared, the Republic’s US Ambassador said today.

A stunned and grieving America was at war tonight - with the hunt for those responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington beginning in earnest.

The family of Ruth Clifford-McCourt and her daughter are now planning to travel to the United States to attend her funerals.

The names of the Irish mother and daughter who died, when their plane was hijacked and crashed into one of the World Trade Centre towers have been released.