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New York’s 9/11 fire chief to celebrate 10th Anniversary in Dublin with message of peace - VIDEO

Retired firefighter travels world to share message of peace

ANTOINETTE KELLY,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Friday, September 9, 2011, 8:01 PM

Updated Monday, September 12, 2011, 5:22 PM

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Retired fire chief Dan Daily

A retired fire chief will be marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy in Dublin this weekend, at a special event.

Dan Daly, a retired FDNY fire chief lost 50 colleages at Ground Zero and since the atrocity has travelled the world preaching a message of peace.

On Sunday he will be speaking at the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght, North Dublin about 'The Five Keys to Successful Living'.
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The retired firefighter recalls the morning of the attack as a "beautiful crystal clear day". Off duty he was considering taking his own private plane out before a friend contacted him and told him to switch on the TV.

He immediately went to the World Trade Center site were 50 of his colleagues perished. In the aftermath he took part in the bucket brigade and was awarded the NYS Senate Liberty Medal for his efforts.

Since then he has shared his message of peace has traveled to over 100 cities throughout the globe.

9/11 Remembrance - Chief Dan Daly from Steven Fabian on Vimeo.

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jamieLM | Sep 12, 2011, 09:53 AM EDT

@sirpeter, you're right. The word should be commemorate, not celebrate. I don't know any Americans who are "celebrating" the senseless loss of human life. Btw: it was EUROPEAN immigrants to America who wanted to settle on land belonging to the Indians. Over the years, these immigrants and their descendants pressured the Am. govt. to push the Indians aside so they could move west. There were plenty of people "right off the boat" who moved right onto Indian land in the mid-1800s without a bit of guilt, including some of my own Irish ancestors. In fact, the Indians weren't completely gone before my Irish ancestors moved in and took over Indian land. It was European immigrants and their descendants who were involved in the slave trade. The first immigrants came here to escape religious and econmic persecution in Europe. Europeans weren't exactly kind and neighborly over the centuries. In fact, they were quite busy going to war with each other. No one has the corner on "peace and freedom," including Ireland. It's just what all of us strive for. Europeans criticizing America is like the pot calling the kettle black.

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CroughPatrick | Sep 10, 2011, 04:06 PM EDT

Its a great and true message. not to be negative, I wonder who pays to send him around the world with this message. Is he a professional motivational speaker? I believe he is. He does do free seminars but he is now a somewhat typical 9-11 braggart who is benefiting financially and egotistically from the events of that terrible day. sorry to be so cynical, the Village Voice article last week about all the people who have and are profiting from 9-11 makes me angry. People you see on tv giving interviews about how much they "volunteer" when on fact they are getting paid and contributions to thier organizations go to salaries and not to real victims. I seriously doubt this Chief Daly worked 6 straight months "on the WTC pile"

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sirpeter | Sep 10, 2011, 09:39 AM EDT

I'm down to the morrow Wizzy.But they don't half make me swear at them at times.

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wizardofoz | Sep 10, 2011, 06:47 AM EDT

Well now, how close to the bone are you ‘Sir’ Well said and Amen, to you.

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sirpeter | Sep 09, 2011, 10:58 PM EDT

I never read or heard the word peace and freedom so much from anybody as you do from the American Nation.Ye have been preaching these words for 400 years and ye don't know the meaning of the words.Peace and Freedom~Peace and Freedom~Peace and Freedom~Peace and Freedom~Peace and Freedom~Peace and Freedom~Peace and Freedom~Will ye ever shut the fu*k up.You lot are anything but Peaceful and have supported more dictators in more countries who took peoples freedom then I care to list.Fu*king hell you're whole economy for the first 350 years depended on slavery and ye gave no peace to the Indians until ye destroyed them.No wonder he called Dan "Daily" in the pic.It's like a propaganda newspaper.Antoinette!! I know you can use the word celebrate but don't you think commemorate is a little bit better.Course some would celebrate 9/11.

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