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Jilly Beattie

Creeslough: Martina Martin was go-to source of "help, cheer, fun and deep compassion"

Martina Martin was remembered as the heart of the shop in the heart of the community of Creeslough, left devastated by the explosion which killed her and nine other people a week ago.

The 49-year-old mother-of-four had returned to her Co Donegal ‘home place’ 14 years ago following the death of her father Michael Russell

And in a short space of time she became the town’s ‘mother hen’, the go-to source of help, cheer, common sense, straight talking, fun and deep compassion.

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