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The final Irish survivor of the Berkeley tragedy has arrived home

Hannah Waters was the last of the Irish students injured in the tragedy to return home.

Berkeley Balcony Collapse Hannah Waters and her mother Una speaking at a news conference in San Jose earlier this month AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

THE LAST IRISH student injured in the Berkeley balcony disaster has returned home to Ireland this evening.

Hannah Waters flew home from California this evening.

Hannah was one of seven students seriously injured when a fourth floor balcony collapsed in Berkeley in June.

Niall Murray, another survivor of the collapse returned home to Irish soil last Wednesday.

Six Irish students – Niccolai Schuster, Eoghan Culligan, Eimear Walsh, Olivia Burke, Ashley Donohoe and Lorcán Miller – lost their lives in the disaster which occurred during the 21st birthday celebrations of another survivor Aoife Beary.

Hannah had been undergoing treatment at the Valley Medical Rehab Centre in Santa Clara.

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