'Our community is bruised, broken' — Memorial mass held for Creeslough victims

Emergency services at the scene of the explosion. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

As 10 candles were lit at Saturday's 7.30pm mass at St Michael’s Church in Creeslough, 10 empty chairs formed an orderly line against a wall along the back of the village church.

In an otherwise packed service, the chairs — to anybody who noticed them — were one behind the other lined up against the back wall facing the altar under the Stations of the Cross.