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Emergency services at the scene of the 2022 explosion in Creeslough, a village of just 400 people, in Co Donegal. Ten people died in the tragedy. Photo: PA<\/p>\n
A man in his 40s has been arrested as part of the investigation into the fatal explosion in Creeslough, Co Donegal in October 2022.<\/p>\n
Ten people died in the explosion, which occured at an apartment and retail block incorporating a petrol station in the village on October 7, 2022. <\/p>\n
Robert Garwe and his five-year-old daughter, Shauna Flanagan-Garwe died alongside fashion student Jessica Gallagher; Martin McGill; James O\u2019Flaherty; Catherine O\u2019Donnell and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan; shop worker Martina Martin; 14-year-old Leona Harper; and carpenter Hugh Kelly.<\/p>\n
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Emergency services at the scene of the 2022 explosion in Creeslough, a village of just 400 people, in Co Donegal. Ten people died in the tragedy. Photo: PA<\/p>\n
Today’s News in 90 Seconds, Friday, September 12<\/p>\n
A man in his 40s was arrested this morning by investigating garda\u00ed for alleged offences contrary to the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997, a garda spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n
He is currently detained under the provisions of Section 4 Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have said the investigation into the fatal explosion is ongoing, co-ordinated from Milford Garda Station where an Incident Room is established under the direction of a Garda Senior Investigating Officer.<\/p>\n
The investigation continues to be led by local garda\u00ed in the Donegal Division, supported by the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and other agencies including the Health & Safety Authority (HSA) and the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Emergency services at the scene of the 2022 explosion in Creeslough, a village of just 400 people,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15553,42,15552,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-16745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-creeslough-tragedy","tag-headlines","tag-maeve-mctaggart","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}