Large scale damage, photos look very serious.
Hopefully no fatalities or serious injuries, but hard not to imagine people will have been hurt in that.
Terrible reading the updates on lives loss .
Surprised the Irish Times would choose to put such news behind a paywall.
This is just heartbreaking. I work going around to different stores both city and county. Yesterday a load of kids came into a small store vibrant bubbling infectious energy. Kids with there 2e trying to figure out what to buy teacher with them helping them. I had to go out to the car to have a cry this is very hard for ireland
nobody unaccounted for now.
Ridiculous, seriously.
To you maybe. To me it's a heartfelt response from somebody with empathy, who realises the enormity of this type of situation.
There's a gofundme page for anyone who wants to donate to support those affected by this tragedy.
Great to see it's already exceeded the target.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/devastating-explosion-in-creeslough-co-donegal?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
Your response: Bit OTT.
Well done Jim.
I do realize the enormity of this type of situation. On the other hand the need of expressing it online and speculate (speculation is not in the post I replied to) straight away of what happened as you can see on the last 10 pages.. Come on. I can be sad about what happened and I'm. But don't get all the hype. Its a bit of sensation projecting here..
"I don't get all the hype".
What a sad world we live in.
You'll hope that no such tragedy ever visits your family or friends, or community.
Did someone actually use the word hype here for people’s reaction to this horror story?
Post #280 - https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119717630/#Comment_119717630
3 posts above my reply. Shocking.
Strangely these threads attract people who feel compelled to compete with each other with regard to who is more shocked and horrified. Best to ignore them.
See it now. Very odd way to describe peoples reaction here. I’m a bit numb thinking about this, and I’m a couple hundred Kms from the town/location.
Yes, but describing people’s reaction as hype seems very odd, no? Not understanding the hype. This has nothing to do with hype.
That's about it. Thanks.
On national news at 4...at press conference it's been described as a tragic accident.
It wasn’t the best choice of word, but I think it’s clear what the poster meant to say.
There was no need to say anything . People are shocked , it hits home for many as its life in many towns around Ireland . Someone expressed how it hit them and got grief for that . As I say there was no need for it .
People die in car crashes all the time in Ireland, maybe not 10 at a time, but sometimes 10 in a week.
I don't see how this incident is "very hard for Ireland"
While it's sad even from my distance I don't think people are breaking down crying all over the country, same as doesn't happen after a bad week of car crashes.
This thread needs to settle down. Take a good look at yourselves and pause before posting.
This isn't a flood somewhere out of sight. Its an anomalous event in a little village here in Ireland that's, rightly, hugely distressing for anyone who has any remote connection to it and in general for anyone who thinks about it for any length of time.
We're all deeply curious as to how it occurred but for others reading through this vacuous sniping, hoping to glean some facts or solace, its a proper sh1tshow. This isn't Facebook, sh1tbirds, its a moderated forum.
The co-operation of the emergency services from NI gladdens the heart. So sad that it has to be this tragedy. It is great to see the island coming together in a time of need.
agreed and a huge admiration for all the emergency services and locals who helped .
Of course people are shocked. But some (unfortunately) use opportunities like this for attention seeking by exaggerating their “grief”. I am not saying what’s what the original poster did, but the post had been strange.
The sad world we live in is the one when people pretending to be shocked and in tears and whatever. As the other poster said, it's like competition.
I do feel sorry for peeps who died there, tragedy!!
But this thread is just bad. Did I use word "hype"? Yes I did, because it does look like it. Some people certainly thriving on those kind of news, eager to express the "grieving" without knowing single victim.
How dare you presume to know what's behind people's posts.
How do you know they didn't know a victim, or someone involved? And so what if they didn't? Can they not be affected by a huge tragedy, and express that?
And have you never heard of empathy?
I saw a picture just now of fire fighters shoulders slumped walking away from the site . It made me emotional because I have relatives and friends in the emergency services. It suddenly hit home what they and the grieving families will carry for a very long time
We are all triggered by images or what we hear and get upset for many reasons . I remember years after my dad had died seeing Tanora in a shop and sobbing like a baby . Its human nature to be affected by certain images
People do do as you say, but I think you’re wrong here as regards the poster.
"Hoping to glean some facts"
Seriously, this is boards.ie, not RTE, if you want facts you watch RTE or the news conference etc.
Nothing posted around here can be taken as fact. Generally anybody posting anything on boards and claiming it as fact is usually expected to provide a link to their mainstream media source.
This is the last place to go hoping to glean some facts.
Or could well have a relative who had died in similar circumstances . We never know what upsets people or why and very much need to be mindful of that
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