"You did not fail them" - President says thank you to Berkeley

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.

As she attended a memorial service for the six victims of the tragedy with President Michael D Higgins, the office of District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said forensic results were still pending.

President Higgins, who returns home today after an eight-day visit to the US west coast, met members of the emergency services and community who attended to the dead and injured and comforted the survivors after the accident on June 16. He and Berkeley mayor Tom Bates both planted trees in Berkeley’s civic plaza, close to the apartment building where students Olivia Burke and her cousin Ashley Donohoe, Niccolai Schuster, Lorcan Miller, Eimear Walsh, and Eoghan Culligan fell to their deaths.