Sirens signalled night of tragedy and tears

SCORES of young people were spilling out of the pubs in Buncrana on Sunday night when the revelry was interrupted by the sirens of fire brigades, ambulances and gardaí rushing through the town shortly before 11pm.

One young woman who was with her boyfriend and who knew the seven young victims killed in the VW Passat, said: “We all knew there must have been an accident but we didn’t know how bad. Some of the cars followed the fire brigade to see what had happened.

“As the night went on, we heard a couple of people had died but then the news came through that it was up to eight.