No road marks needed to see this is a place where sorrow dwells

JUST one small signpost marks Fahan out among the string of small communities scattered along the Lough Swilly shoreline and its parish church lies hidden among a maze of tight roads squeezed between heavy hedgerows.

But no signs were needed to point the way to the focal point of the grief that enveloped the area yesterday as locals gathered at St Mura’s Church to lay to rest two of their tragically lost young men.

Cars turned down the twisty route in their dozens, and walkers wound their way there in their hundreds, heads bent as the wind whipped rain into faces already washed pale by their exhausting battle with shock and sorrow.