Berkeley: ‘Always smiling, enthusiastic, and full of energy’

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

The young Irish, in this west coast university town for a summer of hard work and play, were in a deeply subdued mood.

“It could have been any of us,” said one, one of a group recently graduated from the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.