Creeslough tragedy victims to be remembered two years on

By Dionne Meehan

THE BELL of St Michael’s Church will ring in solemn memory of the ten lives claimed by the Creeslough explosion at 3.17pm today, exactly two years on from the tragedy.

Those who died were Robert Garwe and his five-year-old daughter Shauna Flanagan Garwe, Catherine O’Donnell and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan; James O’Flaherty, Jessica Gallagher, Martin McGill, Hugh Kelly, Martina Martin, and 14-year-old Leona Harper.

Parish Priest Fr John Joe Duffy urged the public to join the community of Creeslough in remembering and praying for the bereaved and those impacted by the tragedy.

“Your unity with us can be done from your own homes today at 3.17pm, by joining with us in silent prayer for those who tragically died, for their loved ones, for their families and for their friends and our wider communities,” Fr Duffy said.

“I also ask you to keep in prayer those who were injured in the Creeslough tragedy, those affected by it in anyway and for those who lost their homes.

“The journey of healing will continue and we remain strong for one another,” he said.

Following this, a prayer service will take place in St Michael’s Church at 7pm this evening.

“Families will be remembering their departed loved ones in their own personal, private and family ways as they have been doing each and every day since the tragedy two years ago,” Fr Duffy continued.

“Our entire parish community will be remembering Shauna, James, Leona, Jessica, Catherine, James, Martina, Martin, Robert and Hughie,” he concluded.

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