Berkeley survivor is making an 'amazing' recovery

Berkeley survivor Aoife Beary is “over the moon” to be settling back home.

She is now undergoing treatment in the National Rehabilitation Centre in Dún Laoghaire.

An update posted on the Friends of Aoife Beary fundraising page said that her recovery has been “amazing” but that it would be months before she could achieve her goal of returning to college.

She us undergoing speech therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy in the south Dublin facility.

Aoife recently attended a One Direction concert.

Today President Michael. D Higgins will plant a tree in Berkeley in memory of the six Irish students who died there in June.

The six students who lost their lives in the tragic accident were Olivia Burke, Ashley Donohoe, Eoghan Culligan, Niccolai Schuster, Eimear Walsh and Lorcan Miller.

President Higgins and Mayor Tom Bates of Berkeley will plant the tree at the Martin Luther King Civic Centre in California.