Many Irish helping One World Trade Center reach new heights in New York City

Kerry, we could be related my great Grandmother was Johanna O'Shea from Cahriciveen. Kerrymen also were the paper handlers in the printing industry, worked in the subways and got better working conditions thanks to another Kerryman name of Mike Quill , drove the city buses were the majority of iron workers etc. they helped build New York just like they did London. Hard working good people. Best of luck to your family.

The Irish emigrants to the US of John O'Shea's time in the 1980s embraced the construction trade, great to see their jobs have continued. In Ireland however the construction trade isn't the way forward for current Irish, the world has changed in the last number of decades and Ireland has changed as well. Emphasis now is on technology, mobile media, entrepreneurship, business management, sustainable energy and other 21st century needs. Jobs creation in Ireland is at the forefront. The US needs all its jobs for its own unemployed workers. Best wishes to John O'Shea and his crew.

The bloke who rang in on the radio didn't say which company he worked for, and I was referring to recruitment in the UK construction industry in general. However, building unions are very weak in this country. This is why the Englishman and the Plastic Paddy tradesmen have been shoved aside and cast into a life of underemployment, despite the Irish forming the backbone of the building industry for most of the 20th century. They have been chucked on the scrapheap to satisfy building firms' lust for profits and their addiction to cheap foreign labour.

Well, it's nice the Irish found work at the WTC. There is plenty of building work going on in London too, what with the Shard in Southwark, Europe's tallest skyscraper and Olympic Park. Sadly, nobody I know actually got a job on these sites because all of the jobs are advertised and the recruiting done through agencies and contractors in Eastern Europe. No construction jobs are advertised here anymore and there are loads of unemployed UK tradesmen. I was listening to the radio the other day and a quantity surveyor rang up and said that he was in charge of handing out the contracts and said that he was obliged to give them to the overseas contractors because they were cheaper. He was shouted down by the radio presenter, who said he was making it up. I know lots of tradesmen who are unemployed or stuck doing low-paid work because they can't get work. Consequently, because they can't get work, they are labelled lazy and workshy by the press. Good on the Americans for giving the jobs to their own.

Not sure what to make of the phalllic architecture from here in low-level Dublin? Still, one-worldliness is desirable, and hopefully more than just a cliché, until we achieve other-worldliness. But a good example of the "lift yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again" can do attitude characteristic of the irrepressable Americans. Eminently occupiable I would imagine?

One World Trade Center.Is that what they are calling it.First World Trade Center is a more truthful name.That site has changed the future of the world for the worst and American foreign and domestic policy forever.Five new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks.Will a memorial be put up for the million dead Iraqi men,women and children who fate was sealed and who were just as innocent as those who died on 9/11? I think not.I consider that site the beginning of the end of America.Human nature and intellect has not advanced to a higher level in 30,000 years and is very much the same as to-day.Ancient Rome whispers from the past.To maintain the empire/foreign bases/wars,you must bleed the center.Still it's good ye got paddy in.They won't fall down so easy next time.Searlit I love Americans too.

And you wonder why we love the Irish so much?

Ana dheas, (Very nice) I know John O'Shea and his brothers and they are fine upstanding Irishmen and proud Kerrymen. They can be readily characterized as always being on the lookout to help others. Tréithe maithe uaisle. (Good nobel traits) Go fada buan a leithéidí, (May their likes thrive)

Now as an AmerIrish I will feel more pride when I visit!

good story.