https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2022/1007/1327825-explosion/
Mental. I hope everyone is ok. Know that area very well
Unfortunately at least 1 dead. RIP, hopefully no more. Very bad gas explosion.
This is really turning out to be shocking. Very dark day
"culprits?"
https://twitter.com/josephamadigan/status/1578414412876087303
Tweet deleted. What was the gist
Quote from: markl121 on October 07, 2022, 05:37:51 PM
Tweet deleted. What was the gist
Said hope the culprits are caught with no evidence for their being 'culprits'.
I think there are Ukrainians staying close by so not sure if there were insinuations.
Awful news .. have been in that garage so many times over the years, hoping the casualties is low
RTÉ
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service said it is assisting fire crews from Donegal Fire Service at a "declared major incident" at the Applegreen service station.
4 dead now? People still trapped in the rubble? I don't like the look of this...
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on October 07, 2022, 09:27:49 PM
4 dead now? People still trapped in the rubble? I don't like the look of this...
It doesn't look good at all. Explosion at 3.15 or so. Shop would have had a few customers.The blast was heard miles away.
3 dead confirmed.
Only back from the game in Omagh and just heard this news.
It's awful stuff altogether and hopefully there are no more fatalities.
Quote from: Norf Tyrone on October 07, 2022, 05:45:49 PM
Quote from: markl121 on October 07, 2022, 05:37:51 PM
Tweet deleted. What was the gist
Said hope the culprits are caught with no evidence for their being 'culprits'.
I think there are Ukrainians staying close by so not sure if there were insinuations.
That woman shouldn't be let make any public statements - I've never seen a so-called qualified professional make so many stupid comments, but this must be the worst.
Forgetting her, this is a terrible tragedy for a rural community, we could all imagine our mother, father, brother or sister popping down to the local shop for a litre of milk and a chat, and to think that something like this could happen.
RIP to all those who lost their lives.
Looking at over site pictures there, presume that's a gas explosion?
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on October 07, 2022, 10:55:48 PM
Looking at over site pictures there, presume that's a gas explosion?
That's what I would have thought too.
Have often called into this shop after beach & woods walks. Have a best mate in the village & manys a pint I've had in Rose's. Utterly shocking, how a split second harmless decision can change a life forever. Such is the nature of accidents. RIP all, unfortunately it just looks awful.
Out of respect no ladies or underage games in Donegal tomorrow.
Explosion could be heard 10 miles away. Fair play to cross border effort, one of the few positives.
Quote from: Rudi on October 07, 2022, 11:19:41 PM
Have often called into this shop after beach & woods walks. Have a best mate in the village & manys a pint I've had in Rose's. Utterly shocking, how a split second harmless decision can change a life forever. Such is the nature of accidents. RIP all, unfortunately it just looks awful.
Out of respect no ladies or underage games in Donegal tomorrow.
Explosion could be heard 10 miles away. Fair play to cross border effort, one of the few positives.
What is this split second harmless decision?
Quote from: Tony Baloney on October 07, 2022, 11:31:23 PM
Quote from: Rudi on October 07, 2022, 11:19:41 PM
Have often called into this shop after beach & woods walks. Have a best mate in the village & manys a pint I've had in Rose's. Utterly shocking, how a split second harmless decision can change a life forever. Such is the nature of accidents. RIP all, unfortunately it just looks awful.
Out of respect no ladies or underage games in Donegal tomorrow.
Explosion could be heard 10 miles away. Fair play to cross border effort, one of the few positives.
What is this split second harmless decision?
Just going for milk or bread. School kids wanting to meet up after school. My youngest of 4 is 5 years old, recently went to the beach & called in to this shop for icecream.
Nothing sinister just small things.
Yup. Just being in the wrong place at the wrong time is all it can take. Makes you think.
I've been in this area a right few times in the last decade and it looks like quite a few on the board here have too so it kind of hits home a bit for people. Devastating.
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on October 08, 2022, 12:12:04 AM
Yup. Just being in the wrong place at the wrong time is all it can take. Makes you think.
Low probability, high impact
The chance of an accident like this is lower han the chance of winning the lottery. These unfortunate people are really unlucky.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RobinSwannMoH/status/1578472469630812160
I've been in this service station a good few times. It's a lovely little village. Last place you would expect anything like this to happen. Hard to think of anything else since this news broke yesterday evening.
Per Raidio na Gaeltachta, Gardaí expecting to announce more dead today.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RNF36/status/1578498214553976832
"Deir siad ar an droch uair nach bhfuil ábhar dóchais ar bith acu ag an phointe seo agus daoine nár aimsíodh taobh istigh. "
7 now. Beyond grim.
Terrible tragedy. May the victims rest in peace. :(
Awful tragedy and sadly it seems more bad news to come as rubble gets cleared.
May the victims R.I.P. and God help their relatives and the survivors.
2 more bodies recovered.
Press conference at 12.30
Desperate. God help them all. I'm full of admiration for the emergency crews. I'm sure they're are running on adrenaline and professionalism, but it will be a toll on them as well.
Horrible tragedy, RIP.
My Uncle was a priest and lived up there for a number of years. Was up regularly back then. Really tragic. It'will take a long time to recover from. RIP.
From Creeslough myself. Just in shock here. Such a busy place there, post office, shop, deli, petrol station and beauty salon. Happened just after schools finished up for the weekend, and it's a regular trip for parents and kids to go up for a treat on Friday.
Just in disbelief.
Quote from: Goldengreen on October 08, 2022, 12:41:19 PM
From Creeslough myself. Just in shock here. Such a busy place there, post office, shop, deli, petrol station and beauty salon. Happened just after schools finished up for the weekend, and it's a regular trip for parents and kids to go up for a treat on Friday.
Just in disbelief.
Thinking of you. Horrific
Quote from: Goldengreen on October 08, 2022, 12:41:19 PM
From Creeslough myself. Just in shock here. Such a busy place there, post office, shop, deli, petrol station and beauty salon. Happened just after schools finished up for the weekend, and it's a regular trip for parents and kids to go up for a treat on Friday.
Just in disbelief.
Terrible tragedy. With that number of deaths every family in the village is likely to be impacted in one way or another. Thinking of you all at this very sad time
Quote from: Goldengreen on October 08, 2022, 12:41:19 PM
From Creeslough myself. Just in shock here. Such a busy place there, post office, shop, deli, petrol station and beauty salon. Happened just after schools finished up for the weekend, and it's a regular trip for parents and kids to go up for a treat on Friday.
Just in disbelief.
I'm from the other end of the county, but I knew a few from the area back in my school days.
Absolutely shocking to see something like this hit a small, rural community.
There's been a few gas explosions over my years in NY, but that's a city of 8+million in a metropolitan area of 20 million.
So many families are going to be affected by this. I hope yours isn't.
https://www.donegaldaily.com/2022/10/07/creeslough-tragedy-specialist-rescue-crews-to-search-through-night-for-survivors/
Tragic beyond words. 9 confirmed dead and searching continues ... is there any indication of how many people are still missing?
10
https://mobile.twitter.com/HMFerry/status/1578738744416669698
4 men, 3 women, 2 teenagers and a primary school aged girl. Somehow seeing that brings it home even more what has happened rather than just seeing the number. So tragic for the area.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/1008/1327931-creeslough/Gardaí say they are not expecting any further casualties from this incident.
Update: There are no more people unaccounted for.
Quote from: Goldengreen on October 08, 2022, 12:41:19 PM
From Creeslough myself. Just in shock here. Such a busy place there, post office, shop, deli, petrol station and beauty salon. Happened just after schools finished up for the weekend, and it's a regular trip for parents and kids to go up for a treat on Friday.
Just in disbelief.
Thoughts and prayers here for you as well. Just unbelievable.
Whole thing doesn't make sense
Accidents/Crashes/Fires happen at petrol stations all the time and you never see destruction like this
Quote from: whitey on October 08, 2022, 06:12:49 PM
Whole thing doesn't make sense
Accidents/Crashes/Fires happen at petrol stations all the time and you never see destruction like this
The explosion is said to have been caused by gas, so doesn't seem to have had anything to do with the petrol station itself
Last thing we need is right wing yank conspiracy theory >:(
Just look at the gas explosion in England a few years ago. Levelled 2 houses, gas is the cause, how they identify how it happened or ignition source will be hard to determine in the shirt term.
Absolute tragedy. Life can be so very cruel. Hard to comprehend something like this happening as people went about their normal business. The news will be even harder to watch as they start to put names and faces to the deceased esp. the young ones.
Thinking of everyone caught up in this. May they get the strength from somewhere for the days and months ahead.
Quote from: seafoid on October 08, 2022, 05:58:52 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/RobinSwannMoH/status/1578472469630812160
The support from the North was comprehensive. Swann is UUp. Would a DUP Health Minister have done the same ?
Quote from: seafoid on October 09, 2022, 05:44:14 AM
Quote from: seafoid on October 08, 2022, 05:58:52 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/RobinSwannMoH/status/1578472469630812160
The support from the North was comprehensive. Swann is UUp. Would a DUP Health Minister have done the same ?
I'd be surprised if he had to "do" anything, but I couldn't see the response being any different from the DUP for something like this, TBH.
Wouldn't have mattered. Nothing political here at all - just a terrible tragedy.
Doubt if any Ministers involved.
I'd expect local Fire and Ambulance chiefs to make those decisions.
Really hitting home now that names and faces of the victims are becoming known.
It is just the most unimaginable tragedy. An entire community just has had the heart ripped out of it. Praying that they will somehow find the strength over the coming days, weeks and years. Truly awful.
Thoughts and prayers for all affected. Absolutely awful. Could literally have been any of us or our friends or relatives.
Of course a huge thank you to the emergency services as always.
The names and pictures have all been released - makes it even worse, if that is possible. Poor poor Creeslough.
It all becomes more real when the names and photos are released.
God help them all
RIP to all the victims.
When you hear some of the cruel luck from people nipping in to use an ATM or buying bits in the shop it's so so sad.
Picture of that wee 5 year old would break your heart. God love all of them!
Absolutely horrendous, I'm sure like a lot of you I can't stop thinking about it.
To be doing something so mundane as paying for petrol or getting something from a deli and for that to happen it's just shocking.
RIP to all those that died and to those injured hopefully they make quick recoveries.
Quote from: Captain Scarlet on October 09, 2022, 01:47:59 PM
RIP to all the victims.
When you hear some of the cruel luck from people nipping in to use an ATM or buying bits in the shop it's so so sad.
So sad when reading about the stories, talk about the wrong place at the wrong time. Heart goes out to the families that have lost their loved ones.
I do hope the media leave the people of Creeslough soon to do their own thing and give them the privacy that they deserve in their journey back to some sort of normality.
Quote from: From the Bunker on October 10, 2022, 10:25:08 PM
I do hope the media leave the people of Creeslough soon to do their own thing and give them the privacy that they deserve in their journey back to some sort of normality.
There is an ongoing investigation, potentially some sort of inquest and possible repercussions for someone depending on the outcome. Normality is a while away.
Quote from: Walter Cronc on October 09, 2022, 02:12:31 PM
Picture of that wee 5 year old would break your heart. God love all of them!
Found in her fathers arms.. absolutely heart wrenching stuff!
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/king-charles-pays-his-condolences-to-victims-of-creeslough-tragedy-42054174.html
I hope that some of the donations go towards a holiday for the priest who said Mass for every deceased person.
Does anybody know or was it confirmed what actually happened? What was the cause of the explosion?
Quote from: BrotherMore6592 on October 17, 2022, 11:06:18 PM
Does anybody know or was it confirmed what actually happened? What was the cause of the explosion?
A gas leak from one of the apartments apparently.
A gas leak for sure but it wil be a case of seeing if it was a tragic accident or whether someone had been messing with the gas line.
is it just me or is it crazy (from a planning perspective) that you can have residential apartments basically on the forecourt of a petrol station?
Quote from: Jeepers Creepers on October 18, 2022, 10:34:41 AM
is it just me or is it crazy (from a planning perspective) that you can have residential apartments basically on the forecourt of a petrol station?
I don't see any problem with it.
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on October 18, 2022, 09:35:05 AM
A gas leak for sure but it wil be a case of seeing if it was a tragic accident or whether someone had been messing with the gas line.
They have brought in Norwegian experts to investigate.
I'm sure there will be lesson learned from this, which is cold comfort, but surely one of those lessons is more sensors in this day and age. A gas detector should have sounded an alarm and shut off the gas.
Quote from: armaghniac on October 18, 2022, 10:59:09 AM
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on October 18, 2022, 09:35:05 AM
A gas leak for sure but it wil be a case of seeing if it was a tragic accident or whether someone had been messing with the gas line.
They have brought in Norwegian experts to investigate.
I'm sure there will be lesson learned from this, which is cold comfort, but surely one of those lessons is more sensors in this day and age. A gas detector should have sounded an alarm and shut off the gas.
There must have been some leak. That was a fierce explosion and it would be LPG gas as the mains doesn't go that far.
Quote from: Cavan19 on October 18, 2022, 10:47:34 AM
Quote from: Jeepers Creepers on October 18, 2022, 10:34:41 AM
is it just me or is it crazy (from a planning perspective) that you can have residential apartments basically on the forecourt of a petrol station?
I don't see any problem with it.
Good to know, not as if there's an unexplained tragedy that might prove otherwise.
Was there not a big gas tank at the back of the building?
Quote from: bennydorano on October 18, 2022, 04:52:21 PM
Quote from: Cavan19 on October 18, 2022, 10:47:34 AM
Quote from: Jeepers Creepers on October 18, 2022, 10:34:41 AM
is it just me or is it crazy (from a planning perspective) that you can have residential apartments basically on the forecourt of a petrol station?
I don't see any problem with it.
Good to know, not as if there's an unexplained tragedy that might prove otherwise.
I don't think the petrol station had anything to do with it though??
Quote from: Jeepers Creepers on October 18, 2022, 10:34:41 AM
is it just me or is it crazy (from a planning perspective) that you can have residential apartments basically on the forecourt of a petrol station?
I was thinking the same thing
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/01/31/creeslough-digger-driver-who-worked-for-24-hours-done-what-anyone-else-would-have-done/
Creeslough digger driver who worked for 24 hours 'done what anyone else would have done'
Henry Gallagher speaks for first time in new TG4 documentary about aftermath of Donegal disaster
Henry Gallagher was spurred on by the sight of concerned family and friends at the site of the explosion. Photograph: TG4
Freya McClements
Tue Jan 31 2023 - 14:54
A digger driver who worked for 24 hours until the body of the last of the Creeslough explosion victims was recovered from the rubble has said he did what anyone else would have done.
"I wanted them out. I would have stayed in that digger for ages after that just until I got the bodies out," Henry Gallagher said in his first public comments about the tragedy in Co Donegal last year.
Mr Gallagher was speaking to TG4 for the opening programme of its new current affairs series, Iniúchadh TG4, which will be broadcast next Wednesday. It investigates how people in Creeslough came together in the immediate aftermath of the explosion and searched through the debris to try to rescue their neighbours before the emergency services arrived.
Lorry driver Colin Kilpatrick, from Raphoe, Co Donegal, was making a delivery in Creeslough when he witnessed the explosion and was among the first rescuers at the garage forecourt. He managed to help free one of the injured by using a car jack to lift concrete slabs.
Ten people – Shauna Flanagan Garwe (5); her father Robert Garwe (50); James Monaghan (13); his mother Catherine O'Donnell (39); Leona Harper (14); Jessica Gallagher (24); James O'Flaherty (48); Martina Martin (49); Martin McGill (49); and Hugh Kelly (59) – died in the explosion at the Applegreen service station and apartment complex in the village last October.
The cause of the blast remains under investigation. One line of inquiry is that it was an accidental gas explosion.
Mr Gallagher (47), from Treantagh near Letterkenny, told TG4 he volunteered to take part in the recovery operation following a plea for help from fire officers at the scene.
"One of the lead firemen came up to me and described that there's so many bodies inside, and we can't get at them," he said.
He remained in the cab of his digger for 24 hours removing rubble and said he was spurred on by the sight of grieving relatives in his rear-view mirrors.
"You just see a river of high vis vests [behind me] and I know that among that, there are families waiting on news," he said. "The only way that they are going to get the news of a loved one being taken out, is for me to get in."
He refused to stop working until he had recovered the last of the bodies, that of Leona Harper. At her funeral, her mother, Donna, thanked Mr Gallagher for working until he found her daughter.
"I done what any other person would have done," Mr Gallagher said. "The ordinary people were amazing. I mean, I've heard stories of people running into the building, people bringing other people out of the building. They were taking people out and they were crying [and] they were screaming. Any person we took out, wasn't crying or screaming."
The programme is the first in a new six-part monthly current affairs and investigative documentary series that will look behind the headlines of significant Irish news stories.
Presented by award-winning Belfast-based investigative journalist Kevin Magee, it is the first new current affairs strand made in Irish for a number of years and will be made in Belfast for TG4 by Clean Slate TV.
"At the time of the tragic event in Creeslough, we heard about the extraordinary bravery and courage of the first wave of rescuers, local people who ran to help their trapped neighbours before the emergency services got there," said Mr Magee.
"This programme gives the ordinary people who helped a voice and hears in their own words the extraordinary things they did, often at great danger to themselves in the face of appalling adversity."
Iniúchadh TG4 is on TG4 on Wednesday, February 8th at 9:30pm and will also be available to view worldwide on the TG4 Player.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0322/1439384-creeslough/Two men in their 50s have been arrested in connection with the garda investigation into the tragedy in which ten people died in Creeslough, Co Donegal.