In a letter to the office of Minister for Justice Helen McEntee, the organisation, identifying itself as the Creeslough Family Support organisation, requests a meeting to discuss a request for an independent investigation into the incident, reports RTE.
According to the group, it stands for an estimated 40 people who were directly affected by the October 7, 2022, explosion in the hamlet of Co Donegal, which claimed ten lives.
Hugh “Hughie” Kelly and 14-year-old Leona Harper, Catherine O’Donnell and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan, Jessica Gallagher, Martin McGill, James O’Flaherty, Martina Martin, and Robert Garwe and his 5-year-old daughter Shauna Flanagan-Garwe were among the deceased, reports RTE.
A lawyer for the families of seven of the ten deceased wrote to Minister McEntee’s office on September 26 to ask that a public hearing be held.
The families stated in the letter that the gardaÃ’s criminal probe “is far from complete” after two years.
They mentioned “wider issues of preventability” and stated that the gardaÃ’s probe was restricted. They also expressed their desire to prevent another Creeslough disaster, reports RTE.
Minister McEntee said she was pleased to meet with all of the Creeslough family on the second anniversary of the tragedy.
She said: “We have to set a date but I’m very conscious that it is two years and very conscious that there is still a garda investigation under way, so it’s really important that that can be allowed to continue and to be completed,” reports RTE.
“These families deserve to be listened to, they deserve to be heard, and above all, they deserve to get the answers to really important questions,” she said, reports RTE.
“So, I will meet with them and I look forward to meeting with them, obviously listening to them, while at the same time respecting the process that’s under way at the moment,” she added, reports RTE.
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