New York firefighters gather in Kinsale to remember fallen comrades

Pipers from the NYFD’s Emerald Society Pipes and Drums Band play a lament at the ceremony on Thursday  at the Garden of Remembrance, Ringfinnan, Kinsale, Co Cork. Pictures: Larry Cummins

A weather-beaten New York Fire Department T-shirt drapes across a tree in memory of Michael Clarke, a firefighter killed when responding to the horror 9/11 attacks, in a leafy Garden of Remembrance in Kinsale.

Photos of smiling young men and American flags adorn others in the Garden of Remembrance, stooped over on Thursday by some 70 New York City firefighters and their families who came to pay their respects to slain friends and colleagues.