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Who is Aoife Beary of Ireland? Biography, Wiki
Aoife Beary suffered severe brain damage when a balcony collapsed on her 21st birthday, killing six of her friends. Almost seven years later he died of a stroke.
Beary, from Blackrock, south Dublin, was admitted to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin on Wednesday after suffering a stroke. She succumbed to her illness on Saturday.
Aoife Beary’s Age
Her current age was 27 years.
The collapse of the Berkeley balcony Survivor
Six of Beary’s friends died on June 16, 2015 while celebrating his 21st birthday at the Library Gardens apartment in Berkeley, California after a fifth-floor balcony they were standing on collapsed.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, Beary pleaded for construction companies to publish public safety records, he was one of seven survivors of the incident.
The students were in the United States on a popular J-1 summer work visa program that flocks thousands of Irish youth to the United States each year.
Beary sustained fatal injuries, including brain trauma, broken bones, and organ injuries, and made long recoveries in California and Ireland, including open-heart surgery.
What Was The Cause Of Death?
It is not known if his death was related to the injuries he sustained in the 2015 incident.
Beary had studied at Oxford Brookes University in England for the past few years.
At the time of the accident, he was studying pharmacology at the University of California, Davis.
In August 2016, Beary told California state politicians that her injuries had forced her to suspend college and lose her independence.
“Some of my injuries will stay with me for the rest of my life,” he said at the time. “My life has changed forever.”
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“Now my birthday will always be hers,” he added of the tragic death of his friends.
Before his death on Saturday, Beary had campaigned for construction companies to submit their public safety records to California’s building inspectorate, The Irish Times reported.
Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan, Niccolai Schuster, Lorcan Miller, Eimear Walsh, all 21 from Ireland, and Irish-American Ashley Donohoe, 22, were killed when the balcony collapsed under the weight of 13 people.
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