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06 Sept 2025

Creeslough explosion: The 10 victims remembered

One year ago today, 10 people lost their lives in an explosion at the Applegreen complex in Creeslough. Later today, the north Donegal village will fall silent to remember its dead

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This weekend 12 months ago, 10 people lost their lives in an explosion at the Applegreen complex in Creeslough.

A father and his five-year-old daughter went to the shop to buy a birthday cake for her mother, but never came home.
A teenage boy got off a school bus to meet his mother, another teen went to buy an ice cream and a young woman, who was due to start a new job in Belfast three days later, was visiting her boyfriend in an apartment above the shop.
 

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