GAA President to visit Creeslough next week
Larry McCarthy will be joined by Ulster Council President Ciaran McLaughlin as they visit the site of the Creeslough explosion, attend local schools and launch a new development at St Michael's GAA club
GAA President Larry McCarthy will visit the site of the Creeslough explosion next week.
On Tuesday, December 13, Mr McCarthy will be joined by Ulster Council President Ciaran McLaughlin will visit a community still reeling from the October 7 disaster.
The explosion claimed the lives of ten people, plunging the community into a shock it still feels so vividly.
The high-ranking GAA officials will visit all of the schools in the parish.
They will finish their visit by officially launching the St Michael's GAA club's new lighting development at The Bridge.
St Michael's were among the clubs and groups to the forefront in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 blast.
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.
Last weekend, the former Donegal manager Mickey Moran travelled present a book of condolence from the Kilcoo GAA club in County Down.
Moran visited Liam McElhinney, the chairperson of the St Michael's GAA Club to hand over the book.