GARDA Commissioner Drew Harris has confirmed the investigation file on the Creeslough explosion in Donegal is near completion. The top cop said the probe file into the blast that ripped through an Applegreen service station on October 7, 2022 is almost ready to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Ten people died in the Co Donegal village after the catastrophic blast.
Speaking to the media at the Association of Garda Superintendents in Meath today, Mr Harris did not confirm the exact date they will be sending the file to prosecutors. He said: “I understand the file is near completion.” Three men and a woman have been arrested as gardai continue the investigation.
Mr Harris told The Irish Mirror : “We've drawn an expertise from Great Britain in terms of tragedies around gas explosions in that jurisdiction and where we have lessons to learn in terms of the experience there that has been brought to bear in this investigation. “The purpose of submitting a file to the Director Public Prosecutions is for the purpose of [examining] is there criminal liability. “And in that case, there will be an exposure then of the evidence in the criminal justice process.
“But it is for the director to decide on the evidence then. That process is ongoing.” He urged that the Director of prosecutions is an entirely independent office that will make their “own independent assessment and judgment”.
Several of the victims’ families have called on the Irish Governmen.