NY firemen donate glass, steel from Twin Towers to Kinsale exhibition

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.

Members of Ladder 43 were said to have been particularly moved by their visit to the Kinsale Garden of Remembrance which is dedicated to the memory of Fr Mychal Judge, former chaplain of the New York Fire Department, and to the 343 firefighters who died in New York on September 11, 2001.

Founder of the Irish Veterans Organisation, Declan Hughes, said looking at the shard of glass he imagined the regular person who was going about their business in the Twin Towers, perhaps glancing out that very window on the day of the terrorist attack.