Massive explosion at Applegreen in Creeslough

If you give an "opinion", you should have some basis for it.

I don't think crass political comments are against any Board's rules, as neither is bad taste, so why would I report it?

Reported it for what exactly? I'm going to stop engaging with you, don't want to be part of derailing the thread.

I reported you for back seat modding.

Cut it out the lot of you. You're behaving like children at school with comments akin to "I'm going to tell the teacher on you". Grow up!

I haven't even looked at reported posts yet but there will be sanctions for a couple of people here when I'm back on the desktop PC.

Well fooking said… What the hell is wrong with people trying to make something out of how the leader of our country “looked” during discussions on this absolute horror story.

Sticking up for them, as opposed to what? Slagging and criticising them for being there yesterday as leaders, to show compassion? Wtf!!!

Some people need to take a long hard look at themselves.

Some of the comments here are shameful.

No more shameful than yourself tbh.

You are using the deaths of 10 people to score cheap internet points.

It's an English disease caused by gutter tabloids.

I found the official establishment response to the tragedy to be lacking. I thought that both party leaders appeared to be reluctant and disinterested. That was my observation from what I saw on the 9 o’clock news. I thought RTÉ responded very poorly too. I put on RTÉ television yesterday at 1pm to see updates of the search and rescue on the One O’Clock news only to find that there was no OneO’Clock news.

I had to go to Sky News to get an update.

I have no idea why you are all finding my views so upsetting. I can only assume that any diversion away from the echo chamber here is a shock.

Let's hope that the Gardaí & fire services had personnel on hand during the recovery operation, gathering clues and evidence as to possible cause. Whilst understandable that the emergency services would concentrate on extracting people, a bit concerning to hear it reported that evidence may have been lost in that process.

I sincerely hope this is not another 'Stardust' situation, where the underlying events are unclear for years to come.

From looking at the TV Guide RTE TV news was at 1.15 yesterday. Hard to blame them for this. I was on the move at that time and listened to Katie Hannon on RTE radio. I thought that she covered the story well and displayed lots of empathy, as you would expect

in relation to Micheal Martin I heard him on radio 1 yesterday morning and thought that he had very little to say and kept repeating the point over and over again. However I thought that he was very good on the evening news and came across as genuine.

Fair enough. I didn’t see what you saw. And I’m not at all upset with your take here. Ten human lives lost. I think pretty much everyone is very shocked and “upset” about it.

Not all of us are intimately upset, but just feeling terribly sad for those poor lives lost. Varadkar and Martin are absolutely no different.

There are no diversions away from an echo chamber. That’s in your head, I think.

My observation that in my opinion the leaders of the main parties and the national broadcaster totally failed this weekend in their response to a national disaster does “a disservice to the people of Cresslough”? Can you explain please?

Also, where or how are you comparing my observations on an internet chat room to the response of the immediate community in Donegal?!? Like, what exactly are you trying to say?

I give full marks to the mod on this thread for his/her patience. I would have thrown in the towel ages ago myself. It is either total immaturity and lack of empathy on behalf of some posters, or that old old chestnut of politics in the North of our country and the hatred of anything seen as vaguely Dublin based.

Muffler you need a break from this. Pity there is no facility for the mod to "hide a post" temporarily so that both the mod and other posters get a short break from those with agendas unconnected to the premise of the thread.

Thank you.

Glad you didn't say "here here" 😉

I just heard the list of names read out on the radio . No words can comfort those who lost a loved one

Ar dheis Dé go raibh siad .

https://www.facebook.com/100064615877068/posts/pfbid033zzrht5wcNiMayu6mozwjyqhHNuZLRE7S2FhmfFuBFdShgo32Vx1hEjiSEDmWUX5l/?app=fbl

This is just (even more) heartbreaking.

Faces put to the numbers and names just adds to the sense of tragedy.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anmnacha.

An Gardai Siochana have a post on their Facebook with an update. It also carries a photo of all who lost their lives. The names and photos were released with the agreement of the families. it is very upsetting and heartbreaking but it is a touching and genuine acknowledgement of each person by name and age.

You can see the character of each person, as the photos are released from the families proud of their loved ones rather than taken from social media by the papers.

Has any news outlet given a breakdown of why the victims were at the petrol station / Apartments? It would be interesting to know whether they were residents in the apartment, store staff, or store visitors.

There has been some information given.

One girl who died, and her boyfriend who is seriously injured, lived in one of the apartments.

One of the deceased was working in the shop.

One man who died had just run in to use the ATM.

The father and 5-year old daughter who died were in the shop to buy a birthday cake for her mother.

Those are stories I remember off the top of my head.