SEPTEMBER 2011
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Irish workers on the job helping to rebuild Ground Zero
NEW YORK - It is the most high-profile construction project on the planet, but to the builders on site, it's just a regular job.
Scores of Irish construction workers are employed at Ground Zero, helping to rebuild the site left devastated by the fall of the Twin Towers.
"It's definitely a privilege to work here," says Willie O'Donnell (40) from Listowel, Co. Kerry, who has been on site for two-and-a-half years.
"The first day you start here, you remember 9/11, where you were and everything like that. But you just work away and it becomes just a regular, pain-in-the-ass job!"
O'Donnell works forNavillus, a Kerry company responsible for most of the concrete work on the new Memorial Plaza and 9/11 Museum.
On the day the terrorists struck the Twin Towers in 2001, he was working on nearby Canal Street and saw the giant buildings crumble before his eyes. Now, a decade later, he's helping to rebuild the site they once stood on.
The attacks were also witnessed firsthand by two of his colleagues.
Jimmy O'Sullivan (47) from Dunmanway, Co. Cork, was working on a high-rise on 47th Street in midtown Manhattan, when the first plane flew suspiciously low over their heads.
A colleague remarked to him, "There's something wrong," and then, "everybody just froze."
He said, "It's great to be building it back up again. It's something that you feel honoured to be involved in."
Mike Carmody (37) from Tarbert, Co. Kerry, was working 30 floors up on a building project across the river in Queens.
And Michael Deere (43) from Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick, was working underground across the bridge in Brooklyn on the day of the attacks. By the time he emerged, all he could see
THE MASSIVE construction site at Ground Zero. The site is being rebuilt with five new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is on track to open the plaza on the tenth anniversary of the attacks, on September 11, 2011.
IRISH WORKERS: (L-R) Willie O'Donnell, Jimmy O'Sullivan, Niall Marshall, Michael Deere and Mike Carmody.
was a cloud of smoke hanging over all of Lower Manhattan.
He has been working as a carpenter with Bovis, the general contractors for the Memorial Plaza and Museum, for five months. "Six weeks ago, you wouldn't have thought it would ever open on time, but there's been massive progress," he said.
Working alongside him with Bovis is Niall Marshall (31) from Birr, Co. Offaly "I am very proud of being here," he says. "A lot of American people look at this as something great - a rebuilding that's going to bring everyone back together."
ARTIST'S digital rendering of the new reconstructed site at Ground Zero. As of August 2011, One World Trade Center is at 80 stories with glass up to the 54th floor, Tower Four is up around 38 stories with glass up to the 15th floor.
Top 10 Celtic Hits for September
Celt In A Twist is local contemporary Celtic radio heard weekly on AM 1470, CJVB in Vancouver.
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The following is the Celt In A Twist Contemporary Celtic Top Ten:
1. Green Eyes, Red Hair by Gaelic Storm - Cabbage on Roar label.
2. King is Back-Ashley Maclsaac - Crossover on So Plaid Music.
3. Revolution by Flogging Molly -Speed of Darkness on Borstal Beat.
4 Memorial Day by Dropkick Murphys - Going Out in Style on Born & Bred label.
5. Tourjours En Mouvement by Feufollet - En Couleurs on Feufolle Records.
6. Turlutte Hirsute by Genticorum - Nagez Rameurs on Independent label.
7. Ghost of the Whiskey Devil by The Mahones - 777e Black Irish on True North label.
8. John Paterson's Mare
by Lome MacDougall - Hello World on Green Trax label.
9. Scatter the Mud by Qristine & Quinn Bachand - Family on Q&Q Music label.
AO.King of the Pipers by Stevie Dunne - About Time on Independent label.
Celt In A Twist Pick Of The Month: Flogging Molly - Speed of Darkness (Borstal Beat)
quote of the month
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
- George Bernard Shaw [Irish comic dramatist, Literary critic, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925]
Robber surrenders to ambulance
A bungling post office raider who mistook an ambulance siren for that of a garda car was sentenced to nine years for a series of offences including robbery and possession of heroin when he appeared at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in July. Gavin Mangan (34) apparently threw away his gun and surrendered to an ambulance after hearing the siren.
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