‘What did it achieve?’ ask Cork brothers who lost sister and niece

IT IS a decade since the 9/11 terrorist atrocity but their grief and pain endures, the void remains and they still await justice.

Three Irish brothers — John, Mark and Ron Clifford — were thrust onto the world stage by a set of unspeakably tragic circumstances on September 11, 2001.

They gathered with family members in a Cork city cemetery yesterday to remember their sister, their niece, and the little girl’s godmother who were all killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.