Twice in one day, the County Donegal village of Creeslough fell silent. Just hours apart, two of the 10 people killed in Friday's petrol station explosion were laid to rest.
Fr John Joe Duffy says the deaths of 10 villagers in Friday's explosion is taking its tollTwice in one day, the County Donegal village of Creeslough fell silent.Just hours apart, two of the 10 people killed in Friday's petrol station explosion were laid to rest.
St Michael's church, a simple white place of worship, sits at one end of the village, in the shadow of Muckish mountain, closest to the neighbouring town of Dunfanaghy. The petrol station, its shop and post office were at the centre of the town and at the heart of this community.It's where Creeslough's elderly picked up their pensions, where workers popped in for a deli lunch, where passers through stopped to fill their tanks.On any given day, at any given time, it bustled with activity."How can something, in such a split second cause the devastation that we saw in just an instant, out of nowhere?," asked Eamonn.
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