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Broken wooden supports are exposed after the collapse of a balcony at the Library Gardens Apartments in Berkeley, California, in June of last year. Five Dublin J1 visa students and an Irish-American woman died in the incident. File photograph: Jim Wilson/New York Times
Berkeley balcony collapse: No criminal charges to be brought

No criminal charges will be brought over the Berkeley balcony collapse that killed five Dublin J1 visa students and an Irish-American woman last summe(...)

The floor section of a damaged balcony is laid on a flatbed truck in Berkeley, California June 16, 2015. Photograph: Reuters
Signs of Berkeley balcony problems were ‘ignored’ – lawyers

The rot that caused the Berkeley balcony collapse was “produced by a multitude of mistakes during design and construction” of the California apartm(...)

The Library Gardens Apartments in Berkeley, California, before the balcony collapse which killed five Irish J-1 students and one Irish-American student. Photograph: Google Maps
Berkeley: complex investigation and legal fight ahead

Where did the water come from? That’s the question. It is six weeks since the balcony collapse at an apartment block in Berkeley that killed fi(...)

The damaged balcony being removed from the fourth story apartment building balcony in Berkeley, California. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters
Judge refuses to restrain Berkeley balcony collapse investigators

A California judge has refused the construction company that built the Berkeley building – where six students died last month in a balcony collapse(...)

The US company that built the apartment block where six Irish students were killed in a balcony collapse last month has criticised the City of Berkeley’s initial investigation and warned against further “destructive testing” of the evidence.
Berkeley building company seeks to curb criminal investigators

The US company that built the apartment block where six Irish students were killed in a balcony collapse last month has criticised the City of Berkele(...)

Young women hold candles during a vigil at the Martin Luther King Jr Civic Center Park to mourn the loss of six Irish students who died in an early Tuesday morning in the Berkeley balcony collapse. Photograph: Getty
Hundreds attend Berkeley vigil for those killed and injured

Several hundred people, most Irish J-1 students in the San Francisco Bay Area, attended a night vigil to the six Irish people killed when a balcony co(...)

Mourners place flowers at the scene of the balcony collapse near the University of California Berkeley campus. Photograph: Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Two students still critical as parents arrive in Berkeley

Medical staff are closely monitoring two Irish women still in a critical condition after they fell from a fourth-floor collapsed balcony at a 21st bir(...)

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