Eamon Dillon
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And again, McGovern's, the phone that he was using was then going to another phone, which they believed to be Jason Keating.
And they were passing on live updates as to where Noel Kirwan was just before he was shot.
And then the fourth phone was the shooter.
And she wanted them to tell her to tell her dad that she was here as well.
And she was told her like what had happened.
She describes being carried into a neighbour's house and they told they told her not to look to her left as they brought her in.
And she said she later remember watching his body being removed from the scene.
And she kept asking people, did this really happen?
Is this real?
And she was wondering how she was going to tell her brother, Chris, who was in Manchester at the time working, and how would he get him home?
And then we learned that a friend of his had called him and told him that his father had been shot.
And he laughed at this and said, why would somebody be trying to kill him?
And then he rang Donna.
And when she said, when I told him, he was screaming.
The next flight then wasn't until 8 a.m.
the next morning.
So there's this agonizing wait where he can't get out.
And she described as, you know, organizing to get picked up from the airport.
And he says, ironically, Ryan Tuberty was there doing one of these live radio shows where people are coming home for Christmas.
And there was lots of, I suppose, of tearful and happy reunions of families coming from abroad.