A community in anguish

BUNCRANA was a town loath to awaken yesterday, its shop shutters drawn and windows darkened as if to acknowledge the new day would be to let in the pain it bore.

But there was no blocking out the glaring horror of the weekend carnage on its doorstep and no hiding from the grief of the loss of the five young lives the tragedy stole.

Cousins Gavin Duffy, 21, and Darren Quinn, 21; Gavin's girlfriend Charlene O'Connor, 21; their pal Rochelle Peoples, 22, and her boyfriend David Steele, 23, were the relatives, friends and neighbours of hundreds and the sorrow at their deaths seeped into almost every household on the Inishowen peninsula.