It was an early afternoon in September when the phones stopped ringing. An employee of Sunway Travel had shouted out for someone to turn on a radio and in unprecedented silence the staff gathered around to listen to the world change. Without a television or a phone, the description of one plane and then another flying into two towers across the Atlantic Ocean, was relayed to a small office in Blackrock in south Dublin over a radio on September 11, 2001.  The front window of the office, facing onto the village main street, were full of familiar advertisements for beach…

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