DjMagra’s stuff ‘n’ stuff

I was just browsing through ireland.com this morning, and decided to have a look back to see the front page of the Irish Times on Sept 11th 2001. Obviously, with the fact that the paper went to print before the attacks of 9/11, this was a pretty good indication to how things were before the world changed that morning.

Ironically, they led with a story by former International Business Editor, Conor O’ Cleary, who I remember so vividly from the day of 9/11 being on the phone to Joe Duffy or Garreth O’ Callaghan on the radio, describing the scene in front of him at the twin towers, and then, stopping in horror as he started to see people jump from the upper floors of the towers to escape the horrors there. I’ve actually written about that here and here before. The story US hoping tax rebates will help economy outlines how the White House believed that tax rebates from President George W Bush’s $40 billion (&euro44.5 billion) refund scheme would lead to “fairly robust” economic growth in the final quarter of 2001. Ironic, given on that day, the US economy would nose dive on the backs of the terrorist attacks on their own soil.

Other headlines from the IT that day include “Renewed foot-and-mouth risk threat sinks national ploughing event” “Bush adviser Haass pressures Sinn Féin over arrest of suspected IRA members in Colombia” “Cowen and Peres meet to discuss Mid-East situation”