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It wasn’t until she came up the 210 Freeway that she saw the towering flames and began to understand the enormity of what had happened.

The Coleraine rower won European and world titles in the build-up to the Games last summer but admitted that nothing could have prepared her for the enormity of her success in Paris.

The former shop worker also admitted even happy moments were tinged with sadness due to the enormity of her loss.

Hosts may genuinely want to help and simultaneously become exhausted by their guests and the enormity of the situation.

The prime minister recalled feeling "a sickness" and "air of desolation" as he tried to make sense of "the enormity of this barbarous, planned, industrialised murder".