Ahern to lay wreath at memorial for firefighters killed on 9/11

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern will meet with UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and visit the Twin Towers memorial site with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg today.

Mr Ahern is paying the traditional St Patrick’s Day visit to the US this week, and arrived in New York yesterday.

A Fianna Fáil fundraising event had provisionally been pencilled in for last night, but was cancelled because the necessary paperwork couldn’t be arranged in time.