A digger driver who didn’t stop until he had uncovered the last body from the debris of the Creeslough tragedy has spoken publicly for the first time.
In the opening programme of a new current affairs series Iniúchadh TG4 which will be broadcast next week, Henry Gallagher, from Treantagh near Letterkenny, reveals how he was spurred on to recover the bodies by the sight of grieving relatives in his rear view mirrors.
The 47-year-old remained in the cab of his excavator for twenty-four hours removing rubble from the collapsed building until the last body of ten, that of 14-year-old Leona Harper was recovered. The teenager’s mother Donna Harper singled Mr Gallagher out for praise at her daughter’s funeral.
