Tuesday, September 11 started, unusually, for Kerry man Eamonn Carey, 31, at home in New Jersey waiting for a construction job to start. A committed member and shop steward of Local 608, the most Irish union in New York City, Carey had been working for several weeks in the vicinity of the World Trade Center, ironically on the new Irish Famine Memorial in Battery Park, where he … [Read more...] about Eamonn Carey:
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Joseph Dunne: First Deputy Police Commissioner
Joseph Dunne, the First Deputy Police Commissioner at the time of the terrorist attacks, got to the World Trade Center as the second plane crashed into the South Tower. Dunne's objective was to get to the Office of Emergency Management on Vesey Street. However, that building was being evacuated because of its proximity to the twin towers so Dunne went to the corner of Vesey and … [Read more...] about Joseph Dunne: First Deputy Police Commissioner
Dublin Mayor
Launches NYC Campaign
Dublin's Lord Mayor Michael Mulcahy has launched a campaign called "Shoulder to Shoulder" in solidarity with the people of New York. The "civic solidarity campaign" will see plaques erected at Dublin fire and garda stations in memory of those who died in the September 11 attacks.
It is also hoped that at least 100 firefighters and police who were injured or traumatized by the … [Read more...] about Dublin Mayor
Launches NYC Campaign
Healing Heartthrobs
"I have so many pins and bolts in me I feel like Boris Karloff," Liam Neeson told the Daily News during one of his first public forays in recent months. The Phantom Menace star suffered a broken pelvis this summer after he collided with a deer while riding his motorcycle in upstate New York. Wielding a pair of metal crutches, Neeson appeared at the Four Season's Hotel in New … [Read more...] about Healing Heartthrobs
Photo Album: Happy Holidays!
The celebration of Christmas at Rockefeller Center started informally in 1931 when workmen involved in the construction of the Center placed a small tree on the Fifth Avenue site of the British Empire Building and La Maison Francaise (the two buildings which today separate The Channel Gardens). The tree was decorated with tinsel and gaily colored ornaments. In this photo, … [Read more...] about Photo Album: Happy Holidays!