One World Trade Center is a fitting tribute to 9/11 victims, John Riordan reports from New York

LYON’S airport is called after one of that city’s most famous sons.

IT might have seemed as if nothing moved in construction and infrastructure in Ireland in the year that most will rather forget.

Poet Seamus Heaney took a break from writing today to attend the opening of a landmark bridge named after fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett.

ON May 10, a massive stretch of pre-cast roadway, topped by a huge, steel spike, arrived by barge at Dublin Port.

Dublin’s newest bridge designed by world-famous architect Santiago Calatrava arrived in the capital today after a week-long sea journey from Holland.

The head of the foundation building the September 11 memorial in New York told supporters it is “essential” to open the memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, disputing a report that the project could not be finished on time.

The rebuilding of the World Trade Centre site is over-budget and years behind schedule -including the September 11 memorial that was once expected to open on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

HOLLYWOOD stars Liam Neeson and his wife Natasha Richardson joined world renowned architect Santiago Calatrava in Dublin yesterday to celebrate the international launch of the Chicago Spire.

DESPITE the US economy’s downward spiral, it is onwards and upwards for the Irish-backed tallest residential tower in the world, to be built in a twisted shape in Chicago.

DUBLIN property developer Garrett Kelleher’s highly ambitious plan to build the tallest residential building in the world has been dealt a blow — apartments in the Chicago complex will not now go on sale for another three months.

Irishman Garrett Kelleher, chairman of Shelbourne Development, has gained approval from The Chicago Planning Commission for the building of The Chicago Spire, set to be the tallest building in the USA or Europe.

After seven years of tears, fears, frustration and a last-minute drugs row the Olympics finally began tonight.

After seven years of tears, fears, frustration and a last-minute drugs row the Olympics finally began tonight.

A test event for the Olympic Stadium in Athens will go ahead in June it was confirmed today.

Dublin was today celebrating Bloomsday – the 24 hours when Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce’s Ulysses masterpiece, roamed through the streets of the Irish capital.