Berkeley tragedy: Plans being put in place to repatriate bodies of students

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.

The sixth student, Irish American Ashley Donohoe will be buried in Rohnert Park, a city about an north of San Francisco on Saturday.

Jimmy Deenihan, the minister responsible for diaspora affairs, has travelled to San Francisco to give first-hand support to the families, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said.