Latest: Louise James, who lost her partner Sean and four family members in the tragedy, has spoken of how she felt something was not right on the day that her family were hit by tragedy.

A pre-inquest hearing into the Buncrana Pier tragedy, in which five members of the same family drowned, has heard that first responders could not open the doors of the car which had entered the water.

Danny O’Carroll A.K.A. (Buster Brady) has raised a staggering €50,000 for the victims of the Buncrana Pier Tragedy and Pieta House after an incredible fundraising night in Co Donegal.

A mother who lost five members of her family when their car plunged off a pier has run a marathon in memory of her son just weeks after the tragedy.

Hundreds of people attended a Month's Mind Mass in Derry last night to remember the victims of the Buncrana pier tragedy.

Widow Louise James has asked friends to rally around her once again this week as she prepares to mark a month since the drowning tragedy that claimed five of her family at Buncrana Pier.

The hero of the Buncrana drownings tragedy has said he is looking forward to being a part of the life of the baby he saved from the freezing sea.

The Irish Mail on Sunday has apologised to Louise James, who lost five members of her immediate family in the Buncrana pier tragedy, for publishing comments she had thought were private.

Dublin host Donegal in their Division 1 National Football League game tonight and fans of the hosts are said to be planning a commemoration for the victims of the tragedy in Buncrana last Sunday.

Almost €90,000 has been raised in memory of the five people who died in last weekend's pier tragedy in Buncrana.

Two big-hearted people from both sides of the border have raised €70,000 to assist the relatives of the five who died in last Sunday’s drownings in Co Donegal.

Dublin GAA fans have offered to pay tribute to those who died in the Donegal drowning tragedy. Supporters’ clubs have organised a tribute to the five family members who died when their car slipped off Buncrana Pier last Sunday evening.

A grieving woman who lost her partner, two sons, mother, and sister in the Donegal drowning tragedy has shown unbridled courage to write and read a poem in their honour.

Emergency services involved in the Buncrana tragedy which claimed the lives of five members of the one family have been offered specialist support services for any affected officers.

The sight of five coffins being carried up the steps of the Holy Family Church was beyond heartbreaking.

Davitt Walsh jumped into the water and saved the four-month-old baby before the car sank in the Donegal harbour.

The funeral service for the family who tragically drowned in Donegal at the weekend will be held in Derry later today.

Calls are growing online for the man who saved a baby from a sinking car to be given a special Presidental Award.

Hundreds of people are to attend a special vigil next Sunday in Donegal, in memory of those who drowned last weekend in Lough Swilly.

President Michael D Higgins will sign a book of condolences for the victims of the Brussels attacks this morning at the Belgian embassy in Dublin.

Two days after five people died at a Co Donegal pier, warning signs or safety measures have still not been installed there.

Enda Kenny has said he will never forget the chilling eyewitness accounts of the Buncrana pier tragedy.

The funerals for the five people who lost their lives when their car went off a pier will be held on Thursday afternoon.

The family of Louise Daniels have released photos of Louise with her husband and sons who drowned in the pier tragedy in Buncrana, Co Donegal on Sunday evening.

A young mother who lost her husband and two children and her mother and sister in a pier-side tragedy has said her surviving baby is her reason to live.

They came clutching flowers with despair and disbelief etched on their faces.

President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to the five people who lost their lives in what gardai say was a tragic accident yesterday.

The scale of the tragedy visited upon the relatives of those killed off Buncrana pier is beyond adequate description, the Bishop of Derry has said.

The man who rescued a four-month-baby girl from a sinking car on Buncrana pier last night has been speaking today about the experience.

The horror that unfolded in the waters off Buncrana pier, in which five people died when a car slid into the sea, is the latest tragedy to rock a small seaside town that has had more than its share of heartache.

Latest: The victims of the tragedy in Buncrana, Co Donegal have been named today.