Creeslough community to discuss funding distribution plans

A public meeting will take place in Creelough on Thursday night as the community continues with attempts to plan the distribution of Creeslough Community Fund monies.

The Red Cross held a meeting in the village and will again meet with the public in Creeslough next Thursday, December 8.

This Thursday, the Creeslough Community Association will hold a meeting in the Massinass Community Centre at 7pm .

Members of the public and all local organisations are invited to attend.

The purpose of the meeting is to give people a chance to put forward their suggestions and questions.

Council to prepare an action plan for Creeslough

Group will look at developmental and regenerational needs following tragic explosion

Some €1.8million was raised in the wake of the October 7 explosion at the village's filling station complex, which claimed the lives of ten people.

A joint effort by y the Irish Red Cross, Applegreen, and An Post raised €1.8million while a further €500,000 was pledged to a GoFundMe campaign organised by Creeeslough native Gerard McFadden.

The Red Cross has distributed around €40,000 in humanitarian aid.

One family, whose car was buried in rubble on the site, has been provided with a replacement. Others who lived in apartments above the shop have had to be re-homed.

The first meeting of the new Donegal County Council Working Group to liaise with people in Creeslough on how best to identify developmental and regenerational needs of the community will take place early next month.
Fr John Joe Duffy, Lorcan Roarty and Yvonne McGuinness are to be added to the group following a proposal by Councillor Ciaran Brogan at a meeting of Donegal County Council earlier this week.
The N56 road was closed for over a months as teams of investigators poured through the debris in an attempt to piece together the happenings of that fateful Friday.

An Garda Síochána confirmed in late October that over 500 lines of enquiry have been actioned, with house to house enquiries then at an advanced stage, with 260 statements taken. 
Leona Harper, Robert Garwe and his daughter Shauna Flanagan Garwe, Jessica Gallagher, James O'Flaherty, Martina Martin, Hugh Kelly, Catherine O'Donnell with her son James Monaghan and Martin McGill all died in the explosion.