Corkman to give evidence in trial of 9/11 masterminds

A Corkman whose sister and niece were killed in the Sep 11, 2001, attacks on New York is to give evidence in the trial of the men who masterminded the terrorist acts.

Ron Clifford, 57, who had been living in the US for two decades before the attacks, was in the lobby of the World Trade Center when the planes struck the towers.

As the disaster unfolded, he did not realise his sister Ruth Clifford McCourt and her daughter Juliana were on the second of the stricken planes. Ruth and Juliana are now buried in St Finbarr’s Cemetery in Cork.