Donegal Explosion

Co Donegal village marking one-year anniversary of gas explosion that claimed 10 lives, including children

Garda investigation continues into explosion at service station in Co Donegal village which killed 10 people in October 2022

‘We were in a tsunami of suffering but there came a tidal wave of support,’ he told a congregation

Two pupils from Mulroy College in Milford died in explosion last October

Butcher Pádraig O’Donnell (51) tells TG4 documentary the scene was ‘like 9/11 or the Omagh bomb’

Henry Gallagher speaks for the first time in a new TG4 documentary about aftermath of Donegal disaster

Names of the ten people killed are read aloud at the opening of the Together for Creeslough concert in Letterkenny

On October 7th, 10 people died following an explosion at an Applegreen service station in Co Donegal

Investigation into the cause of the explosion is ongoing, investigators said

Junior minister Josepha Madigan questioned whether the explosion was caused deliberately

‘The reality of it is just beginning to dawn. They’re left with empty spaces within their homes and families. One minute you could be coping, the next it is hard to cope’

Aine Flanagan, mother of victim Shauna Flanagan-Garwe (5), thanked the author for his message

In Naomh Micheál’s first game back, the communities of Creeslough and Dunfanaghy started to find a bit of normality

The High Court granted the Garda a one-month extension to a preservation order preventing anyone from interfering with the site

God or not, nature has made us a community animal, hard-wired for sympathy, to care for each other

It struck me that Donegal’s mountains are the very heart of the county — silent witnesses to time and grief

Tributes led by Aoife Cannon, whose family run the Applegreen station destroyed in the blast

Initial indications suggest the blast was caused by gas which was being stored in an apartment beside the petrol station

Hundreds gathered at St Michael’s Church where 10 candles burn on the altar for each of the victims

Fund was only set up by the Irish Red Cross five days ago