News about Bridie Gallagher

Thousands of residents, including at least 10,000 from the gypsy, Roma, and traveller groups, have descended on Appleby-in-Westmorland since last Thursday. The six-day festival is one of Europe's biggest horse fairs and officially ends on Wednesday, although the overwhelming number of visitors is likely to start the journey back home today. In the otherwise lush and picturesque countryside of England's north west, photographs today show mattresses, empty gas canisters, and mountains of garbage. Hundreds of cardboard boxes, tents, and garbage wrappers have been thrown next to portable toilets, which appears that council bosses have their work cut out for them.

On Friday afternoon, a gas explosion at the Applegreen Service Station in Creeslough killed four men, three women, two teenagers, and a five-year-old child. Father James O'Flaherty, 48; designer Jessica Gallagher, 49; and shop worker Martina Martin, 49; and five-year-old daughter Shauna; and talented rugby player Leona Harper, 14, have been dubbed the ten victims today. The Garda Sochána said in a tweet on Thursday that a male in his 20s remains in a critical condition at St James Hospital in Dublin, while a further seven casualties are receiving medical attention at Letterkenny University Hospital and remain in stable condition.

The terrifying final moments of three children and seven adults killed in a deadly suspected gas explosion in Donegal on Friday have been uncovered. It is the county's 'darkest day,' according to locals. Leona Harper, 14, died after selecting an ice cream from the fridge in the Creeslough gas station store, which had been reduced to ruins after the explosion. Jessica Gallagher, 23, a designer who recently returned to Creeslough after many years of living in Paris, was also killed in the explosion. Her boyfriend was airlifted to a hospital in Dublin, where he is being treated for serious burns. A mother, Catherine O'Donnell, and her 13-year-old son James, a third woman, and three other men were among the victims.