'A cruel tragedy befell us': A year on, Creeslough remembers its '10 beautiful souls'

A Garda Síochána composite of the victims of the Creeslough tragedy: Leona Harper, 14, Robert Garwe, 50, Shauna Flanagan Garwe, five, Jessica Gallagher, 24, and James O'Flaherty, 48, and, bottom row, from left, Martina Martin, 49, Hugh Kelly, 59, Catherine O'Donnell, 39, her 13-year-old son James Monaghan, and Martin McGill, 49.

As James O’Flaherty walked through the doorway of the supermarket at the Applegreen filling station in Creeslough last October 7, he would have been hit by the glare of bright sunlight.

Just a few feet in front of him, as he stepped onto the forecourt, was his 12-year-old son sitting in the back of his dark grey Volvo.