A new report by the Open Society Justice Initiative shows Ireland is one of the 54 countries which facilitated the CIA’s secret detention, rendition and interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects and innocent people in the years following the 9/11 attacks on New York City.

A new NYPD cop has received the badge number of her father, who died trying to rescue people from the twin towers on 9/11.

A Queens woman who lost her husband in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is coming to terms with the major flooding caused to her family home in Breezy Point.

A new movie starring “West Wing” star Martin Sheen and “The Hunger Games” Woody Harrelson will question the investigation into the September 11 terrorist attacks.

By founding the Pentagon’s Victim and Witness Program, Manhattan-native Karen Loftus has become a beacon of hope and a source of comfort for those affected by the tragedies of 9/11.

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What do I remember most about that day?

It will go down as the day that lives in infamy, our generation’s version of Pearl Harbor except worse.
We will tell our grandchildren about September 11, 2001, the same way we were reminded of Pearl Harbor by the previous generation.

I was on air in the Clare FM studios in Ennis when it happened. The discussion on the current affairs show was about coping with bereavement when the newsroom advised me on the headphones that a plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers in New York.

In many ways, the Irish working at the One World Trade Center today can parallel the Irish helping to build New York City over a century ago.

Eleven years ago New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Moira Smith lost her life during the 9/11 World Trade attacks. Eleven years on, her 13-year-old daughter takes comfort in the remembrance ceremonies and remembering September 11th heroes like her mom.

Cork native Ron Clifford found himself in the World Trade Center lobby by coincidence on September 11, 2001.  What he didn’t know as chaos and fire erupted around him that morning was that his sister Ruth Clifford McCourt, 45, and her child Juliana, only four, were on the plane that hit the South Tower.

An Irish American Republican congressman Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) has compared Obama care to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. He specifically targeted the section dealing with birth control plans and Catholic opposition to them.