Special recognition for Donegal’s Mulroy College where two victims of Creeslough tragedy were students
Miley Doran, was 17 when he was fishing on the banks of the river Barrow in Carlow town on a Sunday in May 2021 and heard a child shouting that their mother and sister were drowning. Photograph: An Garda Síochána
A special recognition award was presented to Mulroy College in Co Donegal where Leona Harper and James Monaghan, two of the 10 people who lost their lives in the Creeslough tragedy, were students. Another winner, Miley Doran, was aged 17 when he was fishing on the banks of the river Barrow in Carlow town on a Sunday in May 2021. He heard a child shouting that their mother and sister were drowning and, without hesitation, entered the water and rescued the young girl, pulling her to the bank.
Meanwhile, students from Castleisland Community College in Tralee, who sought second-hand bicycles from their school and local business community for Ukranian refugees, were also commended. Around 60 bikes were donated, serviced and repaired by the students. The ceremony heard that 12-year-old Sophie Lanigan from Dublin was running a high temperature last December and within 24 hours was fighting for her life in Crumlin Children’s Hospital after contracting Strep A and Sepsis. She survived but her life was forever changed by the severe infections, which led to her losing her limbs.
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