The grieving wife and son of a man who went into the Creeslough filling station to pay for his fuel but died in the blast were consoled yesterday at his wake.
Engineer James O’Flatherty – remembered as “quiet and humorous” – lost his life in the Applegreen explosion, suspected to have been caused by a gas leak, in Donegal on Friday. Dublin Live has learned that James had pulled in to get fuel and went to pay inside the shop while his boy Hamish stayed in the car.
Tragically James lost his life but his son managed to get away from the carnage uninjured. Yesterday, Hamish and his mum Tracey were comforted at a wake for James at the Eternal Light Chapel of Rest in Letterkenny, less than 30 minutes drive from Creeslough.
