When 69-year-old Francis Kennedy stepped onto flight EI105 from Dublin to New York last Friday it was the Co Tipperary man’s first time on a plane.

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

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

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.

The World Trade Centre site will be transformed into the “most dynamic state-of-the-art business district anywhere on Earth” as New York City rises from the ashes of September 11, architects and city officials said.

Workers digging up a road at the World Trade Centre site in a search for remains of 9/11 terror attack victims have found two more bones.

A MALLOW construction company is set to develop €1.5 billion worth of property in London’s Docklands.

NEW DNA testing has identified human remains recovered years ago from the World Trade Centre wreckage to be those of a flight attendant and passenger from American Airlines Flight 11, the first hijacked plane to crash into a tower on September 11 2001.

New DNA testing has identified human remains recovered years ago from the World Trade Center wreckage to be those of a flight attendant and passenger from American Airlines Flight 11, the first hijacked plane to crash into a tower on September 11, 2001.

Parts of New York’s World Trade Centre site will be searched again for remains of the September 11 dead after several bones were pulled out of an abandoned manhole this week.

NEW YORK Governor George Pataki declared the start of construction of the Freedom Tower on Thursday, even though work began weeks ago.

The war of words between New York state officials and the World Trade Centre site’s private developer has raised questions about plans for rebuilding at ground zero.

THE plan for the Freedom Tower at the former World Trade Center site features a more bomb-resistant design pushed well away from the street and incorporating heavily protected elevators and utilities.

The proposed Freedom Tower at the former World Trade Centre site, redesigned to address security concerns, will lose the distinctive asymmetrical shape envisioned in earlier plans but will be the world’s strongest and safest high-rise building, officials said today.

After concerns were raised about security at the soaring skyscraper proposed as the centrepiece of the former World Trade Centre site, architects went back to the drawing board.

The governor of New York has appointed a top aide to oversee the controversial rebuilding of Ground Zero.

A former architectural student is suing the designers of the Freedom Tower to replace the World Trade Center in New York that was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, saying designs for the skyscraper mirror those he created at Yale University.

On the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, dignitaries, community leaders and relatives of victims stood at ground zero and gave voice to the names of the dead. Last year, the children of victims took up that task.

Tracy Silva normally spends Sunday nights singing karaoke with friends, but this year the mother of two was on the bill for a bigger show – Boston’s annual Fourth of July Pops concert and fireworks display.

A 20-ton slab of granite, inscribed to honour “the enduring spirit of freedom”, has been laid at the World Trade Centre site as the cornerstone of the skyscraper that will replace the destroyed towers.

A 20-TON slab of granite, inscribed to honour "the enduring spirit of freedom," was laid yesterday at the World Trade Center site as the cornerstone of the skyscraper that will replace the destroyed towers.

A ceremony today was officially marking the beginning of construction of a new building at the World Trade Centre site – the Freedom Tower.

Developers of the Freedom Tower will break ground on the 1,776 foot skyscraper on the site of New York’s World Trade Centre on July 4 – Independence Day

A DESIGN consisting of two reflecting pools and a large grove of trees has been chosen for the World Trade Centre memorial after an eight-month competition that drew more than 5,000 entries from around the world.

A NEW design for what will be the world’s tallest building has been unveiled in New York showing a structure with a gracefully sloping spire rising 1,776 feet.

A new design for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Centre has been unveiled in New York showing a structure with a gracefully sloping spire rising 1,776 feet.

Eight competing designs for a memorial to the nearly-3,000 victims of September 11 terror attacks – including reflecting pools, walls of names and a tomb for the unidentified – were unveiled as the rebuilding of New York’s World Trade Centre entered a delicate new phase.

The structure which will replace New York’s twin towers could stand more than 2,000ft high, dwarfing the world’s tallest buildings, it was reported today.