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

If there are any frazzled new parents out there, desperately struggling to come to terms with the arrival of a firstborn child and its mighty impact on a previously well-ordered life, well, here’s the perfect prescription — an inspirational dose of cookbook author Sheila Kiely’s own personal history.

Heaps of holly at Hayfield Manor, Co Cork

Costing north of €500, daytrips to Lapland aren’t exactly a holiday for the masses. Not to worry, writes Pól Ó Conghaile, there are lots of winter wonderlands right here at home

TEN years ago, with the rubble of the World Trade Centre still smouldering away after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, prospective visitors to New York wondered whether they should put off their trips, or keep a respectful distance.

EARLY yesterday, Americans were delighted to find out that while they were sleeping, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had come to an end.

Government Minister Eamon O Cuiv will today unveil a plaque in the New York church where his grandfather, Eamon de Valera, was baptised more than a century ago.

IT’S often been said — and never more than in the last month — that Bertie Ahern is a lucky general. By this they mean that when his anorak was being given its Teflon coating, they laid it on thick and fast.

TRANSPORT Minister Martin Cullen switched on the green light for Dublin’s new Metro system yesterday - but opposition parties predicted a swift derailment for the ambitious plans.

THE woman charged with heading up the country’s ambitious transport plan last night pledged she would not let central Dublin become a giant building site for the next 10 years.

A CENTRAL transport authority for Dublin must be set up if the hugely ambitious plans for a major overhaul of public transport in the capital are to be realised, business leaders and politicians said yesterday.

THE Government’s hugely ambitious €34.4 billion transport plan will result in tolls becoming a reality on major roads throughout the country.

JUST back from another trip to New York where I took up Arlene Feltman’s invitation to teach a class at her cooking school, De Gustibus, in Macys.

A suspect in the Madrid train bombings was found to possess a sketch and technical details about Grand Central Station in New York, it was reported today.

Thousands of commuters were left stranded in New York after a man got his hand stuck down a train toilet trying to retrieve his mobile phone.