People of Creeslough stand together once more at the end of longest week

The coffins of Robert Garwe and his five-year-old daughter Shauna Flanagan-Garwe, who died following an explosion at the Applegreen service station in the village of Creeslough in Co Donegal, are carried into St Michael’s Church, in Creeslough, for their funeral Mass (Niall Carson/PA)

At the end of a week like no other, the people of Creeslough once again summoned the strength to stand together in silent tribute.

As they have done time and again, the exhausted community lined the narrow main street of the Co Donegal village with heads bowed as coffins passed.