The agony of the Berkeley tragedy lives on for survivors and victims’ families, says Dan Buckley

Last summer 12 Irish students in Berkeley, California were standing on a balcony when it disentegrated beneath their feet. Joe Leogue provides an update on the survivors, their search for justice and hears from students in the area today

Students working in Berkeley, California on a J1 visa say they have encountered difficulties in securing accommodation because they are Irish.

Companies that worked on construction of the apartment in the US where six students died last year risk losing their licence for failing to follow industry guidelines.

Three Irish women who left a balcony seconds before it collapsed, killing six college students, have sued the builders, owners and managers of the Berkeley building.

The US district attorney who investigated the Berkeley balcony collapse in which five Irish students and one Irish American woman died has decided against bringing criminal charges.

More than 400 balconies in Berkeley, California are in need of corrective work, according to a report on the city’s buildings that was commissioned following the deaths of six Irish students last June.

A report on the inspection of thousands of buildings in Berkeley is to be published in the next fortnight, following the balcony collapse that claimed the lives of six Irish students in the Californian city last summer.

Preliminary civil legal proceedings following the Berkeley balcony collapse are due to commence in Oakland, California, on Monday.

A survivor of the Berkeley balcony collapse which claimed the lives of six friends in the US has returned to her studies.

The prosecutor leading the investigation into the Berkeley balcony collapse has said testing of materials used in the construction of the faulty structure is continuing.

The final survivor of the Berkeley balcony collapse is officially on her way home to Ireland, it has been confirmed.

One of the Irish students injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse yesterday marked three months since the tragedy by remembering her friends who died in the incident.

“We all grieve together. We all grieve in our own way, at our own speed. We all have our good days and our bad days, but we have them together.”

The families of students injured in the Berkeley tragedy in California are fighting constant battles with insurance companies to ensure the young victims get the best care as they continue their recoveries.

Family members and friends of the seven injured Berkeley balcony collapse victims are taking part in a 72-hour cycle in a bid to raise funds for spiralling health costs.

A statement on behalf of the families of four of the survivors of last month’s Berkeley balcony collapse, has thanked all who have helped the injured college students, and paid tribute to those who lost their lives.

The victims of the

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Dublin GAA fans the Hill 16 Army are planning a moving tribute to the victims the Berkeley tragedy and brothers Alan and Steve Harris.

The first of the Irish funerals for the victims of last week’s balcony collapse in Berkeley, California, take place in Dublin today.

It was a homecoming without the embracing comforts that home promises.

The families of the Irish students killed in a balcony collapse in the US have said the response of their friends to the tragedy is a testament to the bonds between them.

The Berkeley balcony collapse was one in an “alarming” series of similar incidents in the San Francisco area, a lawyer who has represented victims in other cases has said.

Messages of solidarity continue to bridge the ocean of tears stretching between Ireland and the US as the families of the students lost in the Berkeley tragedy prepare to bring their loved ones home.

More than two dozen family members of those who died and were injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse gathered at the site of the tragedy.

A balcony that collapsed, killing six students, was only added to the side of an apartment block to make the building look nicer, it emerged in documents released by the city of Berkeley.

Local court reports have shown that the builder of the Berkeley apartments had paid off more than $6m (€5.2m) in law suits because of bad balcony building practices.

The Mayor of Berkeley says he would support a criminal investigation into how a balcony collapsed killing six Irish students on Monday night, Former staff at Clerys will protest outside the offices of the store’s new owner today, Shane Lowry will bid to stay patient at Chambers Bay this weekend after shooting his best round in a US Open on Thursday night.  Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Images of rotting wood left exposed by the deadly collapse of a balcony in Berkeley are “incredibly similar” to pictures used in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the construction company that built the complex where six students died, it was claimed last night.

Plans are being put in place to repatriate the bodies of Irish students Olivia Burke, Eimear Walsh, Eoghan Culligan, Niccolai Schuster and Lorcan Miller who all died after a balcony collapsed in California.

RTÉ closed its Nine O’Clock news last night with an emotional tribute to the six Irish victims of the Berkeley tragedy.

The balcony below the one that collapsed, killing six young students, including five Irish, was removed yesterday after being branded an immediate “collapse hazard” by Berkeley city inspectors.

Friends and loved ones of those who died in the US balcony collapse have begun paying emotional tributes.

They came in groups, pairs, wearing county colours, leaving cards, candles, flowers, pictures, a half pint of beer, even a wheel hub.

The young people slipped silently into the church and wrote long tributes to their deceased friends.

When a child dies, you not only mourn their loss but also the future that was denied them, and even perhaps the best of you, writes Dan Buckley

The families of six students killed in a balcony collapse in the US are expected to learn today the early indications of the cause of the accident.

Authorities have sealed off all the balconies in the apartment building where six students plunged to their death during a 21st birthday party.

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