I was thinking the worst, says husband of Irish runner at Boston Marathon

An Irishman has told how he prayed for three hours as he waited for his wife after two bomb blasts ripped through the Boston Marathon, killing at least three people.

I was thinking the worst, says husband of Irish runner at Boston Marathon

An Irishman has told how he prayed for three hours as he waited for his wife after two bomb blasts ripped through the Boston Marathon, killing at least three people.

Eamon Loughran, from Ballymena in the North, had arranged to meet his wife, Angela, by the flags at the finish line, exactly where the first device exploded.

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