Berkeley survivor Clodagh Cogley returns to Ireland

Clodagh Cogley, one the seven people injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse, has returned Ireland.

Berkeley survivor Clodagh Cogley returns to Ireland

Clodagh Cogley, one the seven people injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse, has returned Ireland.

Efforts are well underway to fit out Clodagh's house so she can move home.

Clodagh was among one the seven Irish students injured when the balcony at an apartment in Berkeley, California, gave way in June. Six young Irish people died in the incident.

Following the incident, Ms Cogley wrote

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In a message on a Facebook page set up to raise funds for her rehabilitation her family have thanked supporters for their efforts.

"We arrived back in Ireland on the August weekend and Clodagh is now settling into the next phase of her rehabilitation," the statement said.

"The staff in Dublin are also wonderful so it is really good to make such a smooth transition … in the last two months we have certainly seen the very best of the human spirit on both sides of the ocean.

"We are very glad to be home now and hopeful that Hannah, Niall and Aoife will continue with their recoveries and will soon be able to get home too.

Clodagh and her family say their thoughts are with the families of the six who lost their lives in the tragedy.

"Our dear departed friends who were not so fortunate to survive the fall on June 16 are constantly on our minds as are the bereaved families and friends of Niccolai, Eoghan, Ashley, Lorcán, Olivia and Eimear who remain with their unfathomable grief and with their treasured memories," they said.

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