This newspaper’s headlines on this day 20 years ago spoke of a standard day in the news cycle for our journalists in Academy Street, Cork and Harcourt Street, Dublin. But by 1.45pm on that day in Ireland, everything changed in the world, and would remain changed. Firefighters walk through smoldering debris at the site of the World Trade Center in New York. The next day the Irish Examiner declared “Armageddon” in 180pt san serif capitals on page one and recounted the main details across 18 pages of its two editions. “The attack on America was an attack on world order,” said this newspaper’s leader column.

Source: Irish Examiner September 11, 2021 03:56 UTC