LAST UPDATE | 18 hrs ago

A MAN HAS been arrested in connection with the Creeslough explosion in 2022 in which 10 people died.

This morning, investigating gardaí arrested a man in his 60s and a garda spokesperson said he has been arrested for alleged offences contrary to the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997. 

He was detained at a Garda station in the Garda North Western Region.

The man voluntarily presented himself at Dundalk Garda Station this morning, his solicitor Joe Rice confirmed.

The investigation continues to be led by local gardaí in the Donegal Division, supported by the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and other agencies including the Health & Safety Authority and the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities.

The investigation is co-ordinated from Milford Garda Station, where an Incident Room is established under the direction of a Garda Senior Investigating Officer.

Four men, three women and three children, ranging in age from five to 59, died in the blast at the village’s Applegreen service station and a nearby apartment block on the afternoon of Friday 7 October.

(Top row, l to r) Leona Harper, Robert Garwe, Shauna Flanagan Garwe, Jessica Gallagher, and James O’Flaherty, and (bottom row, left to right) Martina Martin, Hugh Kelly, Catherine O’Donnell, her son James Monaghan, and Martin McGill.

Those who died were Robert Garwe and his five-year-old daughter Shauna Flanagan-Garwe; Catherine O’Donnell and her 13-year-old son James Monaghan; fashion student Jessica Gallagher; Celtic fan Martin McGill; Sydney native James O’Flaherty; shop worker Martina Martin; carpenter Hugh “Hughie” Kelly; and 14-year-old Leona Harper.