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A new book in aid of an Irish charity asked people to recall their favourite concert, writes Don O’Mahony.

Jennifer Peltz in New York hears from 9/11 volunteers, police officers, and bereaved who mourn the loss of national unity along with the dead.

Gardaí are closing in on the Vernon Mount arsonists who torched the historic and protected Georgian villa in Cork City at the weekend.

He spared no thought for his safety during 9/11 and its harrowing aftermath, a recovery effort which cost him his eyesight, but taking part in the Blind US Open Golf Championship was a whole different story for former Irish cop Paul McCormack

New York’s World Trade Centre at Ground Zero, the Big Wheel on Place de la Concorde in Paris, and City Hall in Tel Aviv are three of the latest landmarks to join the growing list of famous international attractions that will go green this St Patrick’s Day.

An Irish survivor of the 9/11 terror attacks, whose sister and niece were on one of the hijacked planes that were flown into the World Trade Center, is set to play a key role once the trial of five suspects gets underway.

Meet Bretagne. On this day 14 years ago she was one of the first search and rescue dogs to arrive at Ground Zero to search for survivors. 

Backlit by a yellow hue, the picture had an air of infinity to it, as if the Dust Lady were one of the lava shapes in Pompeii, writes Terry Prone

Scores of Kerrymen working on rebuilding the Twin Towers site in New York feature in a radio programme due to be broadcast tomorrow.

Donal MacIntyre’s TV3 programme Breaking Crime made a valid point about the need to tackle petty youth crime in disadvantaged areas of Limerick but it was not a balanced portrayal of the current feeling in the city, says Robert McNamara.

Three retired firefighters who worked at Ground Zero have died on the same day from cancer, an illness that many fear might be connected to toxic World Trade Center dust released on September 11, fire officials said.

Bretagne is 15-years-old and believed to be the last surviving search dog that assisted on September 11th, 2001.

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Rocks from Mayo, accounted for in the chaos following 9/11, lie at the core of a Famine memorial in New York, just a stone’s throw from Ground Zero, says Bette Browne.

BETWEEN forkfuls of salad in a New York restaurant, TV presenter Dawn O’Porter, 35, is remembering the 2011 Baftas.

This country’s Bureau Of Tropical Diseases has issued an urgent warning about an expected massive outbreak of yellow fever next Friday.

Elusive British street artist Banksy, nearing the end of a month-long New York City residency, has launched a scathing attack on the new World Trade Center, calling it “a betrayal”, a “non-event”, and a design that “clearly proclaims the terrorists have won”.

Epic trek for reindeer entrepreneur

Four years ago he was on the dole but yesterday his work was seen around the world, presented by the Taoiseach to President Obama as part of the St Patrick’s festivities.

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law is likely to have vast knowledge of al Qaida’s central command, intelligence experts say.

Imeall on TG4 kicks off its new season with a revealing interview with playwright Tom Murphy, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Victims’ families were poised to gather and grieve today at Ground Zero, the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The Sept 11 anniversary ceremony at ground zero has been stripped of politicians this year. But can it ever be stripped of politics?

Tensions over how to pay proper respect to the dead are overshadowing New York’s 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero as a gap widens between survivors and the general public 11 years after the event.

SATURDAY

CHRISTMAS shopping in New York may no longer be a popular pastime in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland except for one group of Lotto winners.

THE plot of land known for a decade as “Ground Zero” has opened to the public for the first time since September 11, 2001, transformed into a memorial consisting of two serene reflecting pools ringed by the chiseled-in-bronze names of the nearly 3,000 souls lost.

Visitors entered New York's 9/11 memorial for the first time today as the site at Ground Zero opened its doors to the public.

A MOTHER in Malaysia greeted her dead son. People in Manila left roses for the victim who helped give them homes.

TEN years after a morning of devastation set in motion a decade of war and recrimination, America stopped to remember almost 3,000 people who perished in the attacks of September 11, 2001.

People around the globe stopped to remember the victims of the September 11 attack today, falling silent to mark the exact moment a decade ago that terrorists struck.

In America, services are underway to remember those killed in the September 11th attacks 10 years ago.

Commemorations marking the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks got underway today as officials and families of the lost gathered in solidarity.

NEW YORK’S police department amassed a display of force yesterday, including checkpoints that snarled traffic, in response to intelligence about a car or truck bomb plot linked to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

US counter-terrorism officials are pursuing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to set off a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York or Washington.

USA coach Eddie O’Sullivan appears to have hammered home the message that emotions must not ground his Eagles when they take on Ireland on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Irene slammed into the New Jersey shore with 75mph winds today after dumping a foot of rain on North Carolina and Virginia, killing nine people and knocking out power to at least two million homes.

A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Irene slammed into the New Jersey shore with 75mph winds today after dumping a foot of rain on North Carolina and Virginia, killing eight people and knocking out power to at least two million homes.

Justin Bieber is set to meet a 9/11 victim's daughter after a request from US President Barack Obama.

ENDA KENNY yesterday played down the financial rewards of a job creation initiative aimed at soliciting assistance from the Irish diaspora.

MARKING Osama bin Laden’s death where the terrorist inflicted his greatest damage, President Barack Obama soberly laid a wreath yesterday at Ground Zero and declared to the city and the world, “When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.”

Marking Osama bin Laden’s death where the terrorist inflicted his greatest damage, US President Barack Obama soberly laid a wreath at New York’s Ground Zero today and declared to the city and the world: “When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.”