Jennifer O'Connell
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2,027 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Jennifer O'Connell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So tomorrow is the twenty fifth anniversary of nine eleven.
It's incredible, isn't it?
Isn't it
Yeah.
Were you?
in the calls came in on landlines, which you know or maybe I might have had a mobile phone, but I remember picking up my landline to a contributor who was going to be late filing his copy to me.
And he just he his voice was like really rushed and he was like, Turn on the TV, turn on the TV.
A plane has just hit the the World Trade Centre.
I was like, That's no e what are you talking about?
That's no excuse to file out.
I had no idea of the significance of what he was talking about.
Like a plane crossed.
So we all went down to our editor's office, Damien Gybert, and um
Round the one T V that was in the newsroom and I just will never forget the horror of seeing the second plane hit.
And then we were still watching and then the tires collapsed.
It's just I think about it, I still Yeah, it shivers.
It's it's horrendous.
changed in the world since and um we were so young and so naive, but
So another person who remembers that day, even more like it was yesterday, is uh Terry McGovern, who's an adjunct professor at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway.
Um, and she's also director of the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Hub at the City University of New York.
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