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Berkeley victim Clodagh Cogley back in Ireland and making 'good progress'

Clodagh Cogley, one of seven people injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse, has returned home t...
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08.06 15 Aug 2015


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Berkeley victim Clodagh Cogley back in Ireland and making 'good progress'

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08.06 15 Aug 2015


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Clodagh Cogley, one of seven people injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse, has returned home to Ireland, and efforts are well underway to fit out her house so she can move home.

Clodagh returned to Ireland earlier this month and is said to be 'settling into the next phase of her rehabilitation'.

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

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They also shared a photo of Clodagh visiting the Golden Gate Bridge with her father - one of her goals before leaving California for home.

 

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Dear Friends and Supporters,A huge thanks to everyone who offered us support and who sent so many kind messages in...

Posted by Clodagh Cogley Fund on Friday, 14 August 2015

They write, "so many people have offered us support and encouragement in so many ways that we will never be able to thank everyone individually but in the last two months we have certainly seen the very best of the human spirit on both sides of the ocean. Our friends and family are continuing to show great patience and restraint as we establish our new pattern of care and activity.

"We are indeed blessed to have such a wonderful community of friends, neighbours, colleagues, classmates and public and private representatives, who have all come forward to offer support and guidance, alongside so many other individuals and groups that we have never even met".

In the statement, they say they hope the other people injured "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 people who lost their lives in the tragedy.

"Our dear departed friends who were not so fortunate to survive the fall on June 16th 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 say.

The Go Fund Me page for Clodagh has raised more than €100,000. Other events have been held to raise money for Clodagh and the other victims, including a fundraising concert in Dublin for all those affected and a tag-rugby fundraiser for Aoife Beary.


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