‘We must respect their pain and shock’

The country’s foremost expert on suicide has warned that the family, friends, schoolmates, and wider Donegal community will be seriously impacted upon by the death of Erin Gallagher’s sister by suicide.

The people of Ballybofey were in shock yesterday after 15-year-old Shannon Gallagher died on Wednesday.

About five weeks ago her 13-year-old sister, Erin, took her own life.