Hundreds gather in candlelit vigil for Creeslough explosion victims

In the October darkness of Letterkenny's Market Square, hundreds gathered with candles to hold space for ten lives lost in the Creeslough explosion — a blast that erased a quarter of a small village's children and adults in a single, unforeseeable moment. The vigil, organized the night before the first funerals, was less a ceremony than a communal act of witness: a community reaching toward another to say that grief, however private, need not be carried alone. In the face of tragedy's randomness, what human beings have always done — light a flame, stand together, and promise to remain — was al