Berkeley Balcony Collapse Survivor Aoife Beary passed away following a stroke at the age of 27. Take a look at her personal life and more in the below article.
Aoife Beary is a survivor of a 2015 balcony collapse in Berkeley that pleaded the lives of six people and hurt seven. She was also a former pharmacology student at UCD. In recent years, Beary was studying at Oxford Brookes University in England.
Besides, Beary got into the public’s eyes after the balcony incident. According to media descriptions, she was admitted to a hospital on December 29 with a stroke and took her last breathe on Saturday in Dublin.
UCD’s Dean of Science Joe Carthy said Beary dealt with the devastating effect of her accident with great courage and grit. Now People are keen to know more about the incident following her passing which we’ve mentioned below.
The Kilmacud Crokes GAA community is saddened to hear of the death of Aoife Beary. Aoife is the 7th person to have lost her life in the terrible Berkeley balcony collapse tragedy which occurred in June 2015. May Aoife and her friends who lost their lives rest in peace forever. pic.twitter.com/N6e7uVKZ4D
— Kilmacud Crokes GAA (@KCrokesGAAClub) January 3, 2022
RIP: Aoife Beary Dies From Stroke
Aoife Beary is one of the tragic Berkeley balcony collapse survivors in 2015 who died following a stroke. It is not instantly clear if the stroke was related to her before injuries from the balcony collapse.
Meanwhile, she was celebrating her 21st birthday in 2015 along with a group of other Irish students, mourned a life-threatening head injury, organ lacerations and numerous damaged bones during the Berkeley balcony accident.
Later, it was learned that the wooden subsidy beams holding up the balcony had rotted from water damage. And that the firm that had built the balcony had paid out millions in construction fault settlements.
Survivor: What Happened During The Berkely Balcony Collapse?
On June 16, 2015, five Irish J-1 visa students and one Irish-American were killed, and seven others were wounded when a balcony on which they were standing fell on June 16, 2015.
One of the survivors of that incident was Aoife Beary. The balcony was on the fifth floor of Library Gardens, a Berkeley apartment building at 2020 Kittredge Street at the period.
Aoife suffered a serious brain injury in the fall and later underwent open-heart surgery. Also, she suffered numerous injuries, including broken bones and organ lacerations.
Following the misfortune, she acquired cure and rehabilitation at hospitals both in California and Dublin. Sadly, she passed away in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin Saturday night, having suffered a stroke on Wednesday.
Brenda Power pays tribute to Berkeley balcony survivor Aoife Beary pic.twitter.com/sAKQI0iBTl
— Irish Mail on Sunday (@IrishMailSunday) August 13, 2016
Furthermore, she advocated for building firms to share public safety records and note any work-related crimes or compensations to California’s building regulator in the years after the catastrophe.
The company that built the balcony Beary and her friends had a record of legal cases against it that were not revealed to the state’s permitting authority, which manages the industry.