TRAGEDY unfolded repeatedly in a dark period of road deaths when three lives were lost tragically in the space of just a few days.
All three were parents taken too soon with their heartbroken children left without a mum or a dad.
Motorcyclist Anthony McBride, who was in his 60s, died in an accident near Termon last Friday, three years after his wife Veronica also passed.
The late Anthony McBride.
The couple’s sons Patrick and Cailean buried their father in Creeslough on Wednesday.
Fr John Joe Duffy, who comforted the families of an explosion that killed 10 people in Creeslough in 2022, supported Patrick and Cailean.
He said: “We pray that your dad is now experiencing peace with your mother in heaven.”
More tragedy devastated the county on Monday when hero 1992 All-Ireland winner James McHugh, who was 62, and his wife Noreen, who was in her 60s, both perished within 24 hours of each other, following a road collision in Cavan.
James is the first of the famed 1992 panel to die.
The late James McHugh, a hero of Donegal’s historic 1992 All-Ireland glory.
Fr Duffy remembered them and said: “Accidents can happen in a moment and change of lives. It reminds us how fragile life is.”
The couple James and Noreen, from Kilcar, were teenage sweethearts and it is expected that their children Eoin and Emma will hold their parents’ joint funerals in the village’s St Cartha’s Church.
Sadly, it was only earlier this summer that the McHugh family celebrated Emma’s wedding in the same church.
St Cartha’s Church, Kilcar, where it is expected that the joint funerals of James McHugh and his wife Noreen will be held.
Parish Priest Fr William Peoples told the Donegal News: “James and Noreen lived for each other. They were a lovely couple.
“I officiated at Emma’s wedding just a few weeks ago. It was the happiest day. I sat at the table with James and Noreen and they were so happy.”
Garda figures show that Mr McBride is the 10th victim to die on Donegal’s roads this year.