Book of Condolence
Tragic event in Berkeley, California
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| Sandra Mulherin | CD | I would like to express my deepest sympathy to all the families who had their loved ones taken from them so sudden and tragically in the Berkerley incident. My thoughts and prayers are with you all. |
| Niamh Supple | Outside UCD | Dear John and Graziella, on behalf of the Supple family, please accept our deepest sympathies on your very tragic loss of your very handsome son Niccolai. The Schuster Family always have a very special place in our heart, as Mum and Dad were great friends with John and Peggy, and myself Feargal and Declan have great memories of fun and laughs in you house and on school runs from St Kevins Park. Our thoughts and our prayers are with you all. |
| Niamh Clancy (IT Sligo) | Outside UCD | As I heard the news my heart sank to think that 6 wonderful life's had been cut so short on their journey of a life time. rip to all those you lost their fight in life that day xxx |
| Ayesha Majeed | UCD Student | My thoughts and prayers are with all of the families during this very difficult time. |
| Patrice Redmond | Outside UCD | Thoughts and prayers for the families and friends of all involved. Such a tradegy. Rest in peace. |
| Paula Ní Shlatarra | UCD Graduate | UCD and Ireland can be very proud of these young people. Leaba i measc na naomh go raibh acu go léir. |
| Helen Murphy | Outside UCD | As someone who has been on a J1 and celebrated 21st birthdays on my J1 I can feel the excitement and energy that was at that party. For it all to have ended so tragically and cruelly is heartbreaking. My deepest condolences to the family and friends of all the victims. You will be in my thoughts and prayers always. |
| Orla Brennan | Outside UCD | Have you all in my thoughts and prayers Xx |
| john kenny | Outside UCD | great great sadness at this tragic event I pray for all involved |
| Sophie Mc Daid | Outside UCD | R.i.p to all that have died specially to Eoghan and lórcán that were friends with my brother and may the people that are injured get well soon. |
| Murphy Family | Outside UCD | Thinking of you & your families x x |
| Paula | Outside UCD | Sincere condolences to the families from Perth,Western Australia |
| Teresa Miskell | Outside UCD | may you all rest in peace our Thoughts and prayers are with your families. |
| Helena Cummins | Outside UCD | R.I.P |
| Sinead Casey | Outside UCD | Devastating news :(. My condolences to all the families who were struck by this tragedy. |
| Amy | Outside UCD | thinking of all the families |
| Gemma Walshe | Outside UCD | My deepest sympathy to all those affected by this horrendous tragedy. Thoughts and prayers are with you all. |
| Niamh | Outside UCD | Unbelievable tragedy. Keep the hearts up. Your loved ones are always near. |
| Aifric Ní Chléirigh | Outside UCD | I cannot stop thinking about the six wonderful lives lost last week in Berkeley. I work and live in the South Dublin area and it is devastating to think that something like this can happen so close to home. I also have two younger siblings who are both currently experiencing the joys of university. Although my family did not know them personally, we were shocked when we realised that Eimear Walsh and her family live just around the corner from us in Foxrock. As a young woman in her late twenties who travelled abroad on Erasmus during college and is about to go travel abroad for work again this news hits very close to home and reinforces for me the fragility of life. I spent many a night during my Erasmus days drinking and partying on apartment balconies, enjoying life and being young. Eimear, Olivia, Ashley, Lorcan, Eoghan and Niccolai our country will never forget you. Your families aswell as your injured friends, Clodagh, Aoife, Hannah, Jack, Niall, Conor and Sean are always in our thoughts and good wishes. Ar dheis Dé go raibh bhur anamneacha dílse. |
| Ronan White | Outside UCD | Hello My name is Ronan White I am from Aughnasheelin, Co. Leitrim. I just finished my 4th year in IT Sligo in Tourism and Event management and the students who I know who went to san fran this year also stayed around that area and it came as a shock to me and to everyone else as i am an only child and I am 22 years of age and I am an only child and i was talking to students who stayed in that block last year as I would like to give my condolences to all families involved and may all them students rest in peace. |
| Ryan McGullion | Outside UCD | Rest in Peace, May God be with yous. |
| Hannah McNamara | Outside UCD | Rest in Peace, May God be with yous. |
| Gerry | UCD Student | I cannot imagine your grief but I hope it soon softens into happy memories of all the joy your children/siblings/friends brought to you and that these memories remain a source of strength to you forever. |
| Hubert O'Donoghue | UCD Graduate | So sad. RIP |
| Emma Burke | Outside UCD | Deepest sympathies |
| Harry Forshaw | Outside UCD | Thoughts go out to the families of the students who passed away sadly. Also for those still in recovery, we hope recovery can be made as pleasant as possible and that you's have your families close during the process. R.I.P to the 6 students, they will not be forgotten. |
| Amber | UCD Student | Sending all my love and prayers to
the families of Niccolai
Schuster, Eimear Walsh , Lorcán Miller, and the families of Eoghan Culligan,
Olivia Burke and Ashley Donohoe. |
| Katie Redmond | UCD Student | Absolutely heartbreaking. My thoughts and prayers are with the students, their families and friends. RIP |
| Paola Catizone | Outside UCD | As a mother of young adults I can
only imagine how the parents and relatives of these young people feel. Please
know that you are held in the hearts and minds of the nation and of many
people beyond. My heartfelt condolences Paola |
| Fiona Fitzgerald | Outside UCD | I am so sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you at this very sad time. May they rest in peace. Fiona |
| The Bailey Family Australia | Outside UCD | May the Angels keep you surrounded in God's Divine Love. Rest In Peace. |
| Colette Edwards | Outside UCD | Spirit Guides..Powerful beings of
Light.....now are these beautiful young people.. remembering all who love them...in candles lighting...for courage and strength. |
| Jessica Walsh | UCD Student | So unbelievably tragic that this occurred to these students. They had their whole lives ahead of them. You will not be forgotten. Rest In Peace x |
| No name given | Outside UCD | ~ |
| OLIVER RYAN | UCD Graduate | I would like to offer my condolences to the families of the young men and women who lost their lives in the tragic accident in Berkeley. May God bless you and help you at this awful time. |
| Conor Dooley | Outside UCD | The terrible tragedy has profoundly
touched me and countless other unconnected people in ways that I find
difficult to express. I did my J1
in 1978 - the photos and memories are still with me. My two eldest daughters - one at UCD -
have just done J1s. My two
younger daughters will, with luck, do theirs soon. What happened to those fine young people last week was so immediate, even though so distant in miles, and utterly shocking and unfair. My sincere condolences to all the families so deeply affected. May those who survived be blessed in their future prospects and may they make the fullest recoveries possible. |
| Denise McDonnell | UCD Staff | My heart goes out to everyone who has been touched by the six young students who were tradigically killed in Berkeley last week. As a mother and a UCD staff member since 1979, I cannot begin to feel the heartache that all the students, parents, siblings other relatives and their piers. I have to admire our young Irish people, at how they have pulled together and how respectful they have been to these six students who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. As my son told me the day after this awful tradegy that it could have been him or any of his friends. RIP |
| Helen Buggle | UCD Graduate | At such a loss there are no words to express the pain and sadness. it is the ones left behind that need to be brave when they feel so vulnerable and exposed in all their human weakness and yet it is the human sprit, the inner strength that propels us on to continue living and etching out a new way to be in the world a new way to look at life it is in the passing of the young that we learn the most. It is with their life not yet spent that we must honour them by our deeds. My thoughts are with the families and friends. |
| Sharon Shiel | Outside UCD | Extremely shocked and sadden by this tragic accident, my thoughts and prayers go out to all the families involved. R.I.P xx |
| marie b treacey | UCD Student | I wanted to extend our heartfelt sadness and ondolences of myself and my family - husband and 3 grown up children - there but for the grace of god go I - it could have been any family anywhere in Ireland. We watch our children grow up and send them out into the world with all their dreams intact and trust in God that they will return safely to us. Rest in peace young people. |
| Triona Thomas | Outside UCD | I am so sad for all of those affected by this awful thing. My thoughts are with you all. |
| Oliver Clarke | UCD Student | Rip |
| Caoimhe Wright | UCD Graduate | Heartbroken for The Miller family and all the families suffering in the aftermath of the tradegy. You are all in my thoughts and prayers. |
| Ruth & Stanley Miller & family | Outside UCD | Rest in peace our beautiful, wonderful, darling Lorcán. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Walsh and Schuster families and all of the other families affected by this tragedy. |
| Josephine McDonagh and Family | Outside UCD | To all the families affected by such a terrible tragedy, our thoughts are with you in particular Lorcán who we had the honour of knowing. Ar dheis dé go raibh a ainm. |
| Cathy McCarthy | Outside UCD | Sending light to the six families who have lost their beautiful son or daughter. Sending light also to the people who are still in hospital in California. Wishing them to be well again. Light and Hope. |
| M Kearns | Outside UCD | My deepest sympathy for the families and friends of those wonderful students killed in this terrible tragedy. Parents should never have to bury their children and my heart breaks for them. I will also be thinking of the survivors and the difficult road they have ahead of them. Sincere wishes for your emotional and physical recovery. |
| Killian Glynn | Outside UCD | To the six young Irish lives tragically lost in Berkeley this summer R.I.P. My sincerest condolences go out to your family and friends during this difficult time. |
| Giovanna Coyle | Outside UCD | My thoughts and prayers are with you all at this sad and difficult time. |
| Katie Devenney | UCD Student | ❤️ |
| Leah Foyle | UCD Student | Six incredible people, who will be forever remembered and treasured. May they Rest in Peace. |
| M. Scannell | UCD Graduate | Six beautiful and talented young people taken from this world far too early. May they rest in eternal peace. I pray that their families and friends can overcome their terrible loss and find some consolation in the privilege of having shared their lives with them. |
| Dympna O'Donoghue | UCD Staff | My deepest sympathies to the families, friends and colleagues of the students lost and injured in this terrible tragedy. My thoughts and prayers are with you all at this time. |
| Shirley Fagan | Outside UCD | Condolences to all the families and friends of these young victims may they rest in peace x |
| Maura Allen | Outside UCD | As an Irish woman from Blackrock,
Dublin, now living in Berkeley, California, and with children near the ages
of your students who lost their lives here, I have shared in your disbelief
and grief from the time my phone rang early Tuesday morning with the news
from Ireland. That your dearly beloved children, brothers, sisters, friends, (some known to my family in Ireland, and sorely missed), at the very beginning of their independent and aspirational lives, should come to their end in the city I live in has forever changed this place I call home. I will never again drive by 2020 Kittredge, (a half block away from Berkeley High School where one of my daughters attends school) without thinking of Lorcan Miller, Niccolai Schuster, Eoghan Culligan, Olivia Burke, Ashley Donohoe, and Eimear Walsh - whose names and faces are now firmly etched in my mind. I have stood alongside some of you at the vigils in Berkeley, the San Francisco mass at St Mary's Cathedral, and also at the Berkeley memorial on 2020 Kittredge where I return to daily. People, flowers, and cards still arrive here as we all try to grapple with the enormity of this tragedy. No words can express my heart-felt sorrow to the parents and families affected by the loss of their loved ones. Please know that you are in our thoughts daily, and that we grieve with you. I hope and pray that you will be carried in strength through the times ahead. My thoughts and prayers, as well as those of the many of us here in Berkeley are with you. Please accept my sincere condolences for your loss. |
| Clodagh Barry | UCD Graduate | Hold on to the good memories and speak of them often . My deepest sympathy to you all. |
| Austin Lambe | UCD Graduate | Dear Families and Friends of the
students, I am deeply saddened by the tragedy that took place less that 10 minutes from where I live in Oakland, CA. As an Irish person, a former UCD student and J-1 exchange student and most importantly as a human being I want to express my condolences to you offer what support I can at a time when the hurt and pain of the loss is inexpressible. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Sincerely, Austin Lambe If I can ever be of any service, it would be my honour to oblige. austinlambe@yahoo.com |
| Niamh Massey | Outside UCD | bless them xx |
| Rita Anne Lynch | Outside UCD | ~ |
| Damien Lynch MBS (UCD 2008) | UCD Graduate | What can a stranger say? I lost my
sister at a young age to cancer, I understand the loss of great promise.
There is nothing I can say or do to help so I'll pray, which I have done
already. RIP. Damien Lynch MBS |
| Donal Nolan | Outside UCD | My sincere condolences to the families bereaved, the staff who taught them and their class mates on this tragic loss of young lives. Our prayers also for the injured who also have a very difficult road ahead of them. |
| Margaret Mc Gauran | Outside UCD | Deepest sympathy to all the families involved. My prayers are with you |
| Fran Malone | Outside UCD | May you rest in peace. Bless & protect your families and friends. |
| Aimee Feeney | Outside UCD | Rest in Peace Lorcan, Eimear, Niccolai, Eoghan, Olivia and Ashley. <3 |