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21st Mar 2016

The victims of the Buncrana tragedy have been named

Joe Harrington

RIP.

The victims of the terribly sad tragedy in Donegal last night have been named.

Five people lost their lives after a car slipped off Buncrana jetty and into Lough Swilly.

They’ve been named locally as: Sean McGrotty (49), his young sons Mark (12) and Evan (8), his mother-in-law Ruth Daniels (59) and her daughter Jodi Lee Daniels (14)

According to Belfast Live, the bodies of the five victims will arrive home on Tuesday morning and their funerals will take place on Thursday afternoon.

The funeral service will take place in the Holy Family parish church in Ballymagroarty in Derry.

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