Great news.
Two students injured in the Berkeley tragedy that claimed the lives of six Irish students last month are due to return within the coming week.
According to the Irish Times, two of the seven students injured as a result of the balcony collapse in Berkeley are hoping to return to Ireland in the coming days, while events are being planned to mark the one month anniversary of the tragedy today.
So far, only one of the students injured in the accident, Sean Fahey from Rathmines, has been deemed fit enough to return home and he returned to Ireland a week after the incident took place.
Conor Flynn from Mount Merrion has been released from hospital but has been deemed unfit to fly because of damage caused to his lung during the incident.
Jack Halpin, from Rathmines and Niall Murray, from Rathfarnam, have been receiving treatment in rehabilitation facilities in Walnut Creek and San Francisco respectively, while Clodagh Cogley and Hannah Waters are being treated in Santa Clara.
Aoife Beary, whose 21st birthday was being celebrated in Berkeley on the night of the tragedy and who woke from an induced coma last week, is set to join them there imminently.
A mass being organised by the Irish Immigration Pastoral Centre in San Francisco will take place in St. Philip’s Church this evening to mark the one-month anniversary of the tragedy.
The Irish Consulate are organising a commemorative vigil in San Francisco on Sunday evening in the same public square where Irish J1 students in the city gathered in the wake of the tragedy last month.
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