Cork family’s 9/11 grief will never fade

Cork-born Ruth Clifford McCourt was taking four-year-old daughter Juliana on a holiday to Disneyland on September 11, 2001, when their flight was hijacked, writes Pádraig Hoare

Ruth, originally from Ballintemple and living in the US, was surprising four-year-old Juliana with a trip to Disneyland in California on the fateful day when they boarded United Airlines 175 at Logan Airport in Boston. Photo: Evening Echo

In an area of St Finbarr’s Cemetery in Cork, an Irish-American family lies in eternal peace.

Ruth Clifford McCourt and daughter Juliana both died on September 11, 2001. Husband and father David McCourt died in 2013.