A sequel to the Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump was completed by the same writer, Eric Roth in 2001, but was never to be because of 9/11.

Glass from the Twin Towers and a rivet of 9/11 steel from the World Trade Center were donated to the Medal of Honour Exhibition in Kinsale, Co Cork over the weekend with 35 members of the New York Fire Department travelling over to the town for the ceremony.

Is it a product of my age or of the age we live in?

President Donald Trump, leading his first commemoration of the 9/11 anniversary, has said "the living, breathing soul of America wept with grief" for each of the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on that day 16 years ago.

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The poem was written by Heaney in 2001.

Wal-Mart said a display of Coke cans stacked to look like the World Trade Centre at a Florida store has been removed and was not meant to be disrespectful near the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

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

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"I know what it's like to have my father killed on national television."

Terrease Aiken was 8, Juliette Candela was 6, Francesca Picerno was 9 and Joseph Palombo was 12 when the Twin Towers fell in 2001.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump denied he was mocking the disability of a New York Times reporter during a speech in which he flailed his arms and distorted his speech in an imitation of the journalist.

Set in pre-WWI London, Suffragette (12A) is a stirring account of the campaign for women’s voting rights which was led by Emmeline Pankhurst (a very brief cameo from Meryl Streep).

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.

A Cork man, whose sister and niece were killed in the 9/11 attacks, has said he is “bitterly frustrated” that five suspects, who were captured a decade ago, have still not been tried.

Tottenham legend Steve Perryman led his club to two victories in the FA Cup in the 1980s. For him Wembley, and the FA Cup itself, retains all of the fabled romance and lustre.

The horror that unfolded off the Old Head of Kinsale as the Lusitania began to sink after being crippled by a German torpedo can only be compared in the history of this century with what happened in New York on 9/11 when two passenger jets were flown into the Twin Towers in a terorist attack that shocked the world, writes Ray Ryan.

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

A sanitised presentation of conflict on TV screens, and the use of unmanned drones to carry out attacks, leaves many people unaware of the full horror of war, writes Dan Buckley

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

Frank Lampard revealed he plans to visit the memorial dedicated to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks after sealing his move to MLS side New York City FC.

An Irish 9/11 survivor, whose sister and niece were on one of the hijacked planes that was flown into the World Trade Centre, has said he will find it too "painful" to visit a new museum in New York dedicated to the victims of the infamous terrorist attacks.

WHEN the planes went into the Twin Towers on 9/11, Brian Fagan realised it was time to hightail it out of Afghanistan.

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”.

THREE days before the Twin Towers came down I remember standing in the plaza at the bottom of the buildings with my old wind-up camera.

In the US, France and Britain, extremely rich, middle-aged and elderly men, in classically-cut, expensive suits, keep telling the ‘ordinary folk’ that we must attack Syria to punish the Al Assad regime for crimes against humanity.

Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who leaked details of US government secret surveillance programmes, is in a very tight bind.

An Irishman has become the first person in the world to propose marriage on top of America’s Freedom Tower.

The Taoiseach has become the first international leader to visit Freedom Tower — the under-construction building on the site of the Twin Towers which came down in the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.

The Taoiseach has become the first international leader to visit Freedom Tower — the under-construction building on the site of the Twin Towers which came down in the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.

Opening early in 1865, as the American Civil War is entering its endgame, Lincoln (12A) offers a detailed account of how recently re-elected president Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) rammed the 13th constitutional amendment — the emancipation of the slaves — through Congress.

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The US brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald has taken over the Dublin-based stockbroking firm Dolmen for an undisclosed fee.

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.

THE Boss blew into town and left a trail of devastation in his wake,

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

There’s a whole range of movies, books and cultural artefacts dedicated to exploring the impact of the 9/11 tragedy, but Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (12A) is less interested in the event and more concerned with its consequences, and particularly the way in which the destruction of the Twin Towers had such a positive effect on New York itself.