MORE to folly.
Thanks Geoff McGrath (The Irish Daily Mail); Tanya O Neill (The Westmeath Independent, Meath Chronicle, Anglo Celt); Séamus Kiernan (The Westmeath Topic); Patrick Conboy (The Longford leader); Nick Sutton (UK covers)
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
From top: Niccolai Schuster; Eoghan Culligan; Olivia Burke; Eimear Walsh; Ashley Donohoe; and Lorcan Miller
Niccolai Schuster (21), Eoghan Culligan (21), Eimear Walsh (21), Olivia Burke (21), Ashley Donohoe (22) and Lorcan Miller (21) were celebrating a 21st birthday party at a Library Gardens apartment when the balcony collapsed on to the balcony below.
Niccolai Schuster and Eoghan Culligan were former pupils of St Mary’s College in Rathmines, Dublin.
Ashley Donohoe is an Irish-American from Rohnert Park, which is 50 miles north of San Francisco. She and Olivia Burke are cousins.
Seven other people were seriously injured. Berkeley police spokeswoman Jennifer Coats said the survivors’ injuries were “very serious and potentially life-threatening”.
Berkeley deaths: Six Irish students who died when balcony collapsed have been named (irish Times)
Officer Byron White of the Berkeley Police said 13 people were on the fourth-floor balcony when it collapsed about 12:40 a.m., sending debris and bodies plunging to the street. Less than an hour earlier, the police had received a call of a loud party.
Berkeley Balcony Collapse Kills 6, Including Irish Tourists (New York Times)
Before and after.
From top: the balcony at Kettredge Street, Berkeley, California before and after the collapse this morning when five Irish students lost their lives.
Outside the apartment block at 2020 Kittredge Street, Berkeley.
Pics: Stan Bunger, SFGate Earlier: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UPu0POEy8w
Authorities say five people are dead and eight others injured in a balcony collapse in Berkeley [California]. Officer Jennifer Coats of the Berkeley Police Department says many of the injured have critical, life-threatening wounds.
She says police received the call about the incident shortly before 1 a.m. PDT Tuesday. Arriving officers found that the balcony on the fourth floor of an apartment building on Kittredge Street had collapsed.”
The Department of Foreign Affairs emergency response number is 01- 418 0200
5 dead, 8 critically hurt in Berkeley balcony collapse (FoxSanDiego)
UPDATE at 1.15pm:
Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has confirmed to RTÉ that the five who died were Irish.
Pics via: Amy Hollyfield and ABC 7 Chicago
Today
A brace of Molly Blooms celebrating Bloomsday in Dublin city and Sandycove, Co Dublin.
From top: Eileen Fennell and Maragaret Toomey; Georgina and Olive Heffernan; Eileen and Margaret; Clery’s customer Donna Cooney; Georgina and Olive (left) with Millie; Sabrina Joyce a great grandniece of James Joyce and daughter Aimeilla at the Bloomsday Breakfast in the James Joyce Centre on North Great Georges Street Dublin; Afric Wall at the Bloomsday Festival in Meeting House Square, Dublin; unidentified at Meeting House Square; Jim and Breda Carroll.
Meanwhile…
This afternoon
Caitriona Ni Threasaigh (left) and Mary Pat Moloney playing “The Washerwomen” from Finnegans Wake in Sandycove, Co Dublin.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue4PCI0NamI]
What you may need to know:
1. An astronaut gets stranded alone on Mars and has to be saved. It was a book by Andy Weir. Or it’s a remake of Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). YOU decide.
2. To get lost in space once may be regarded as a misfortune; to get lost twice looks like carelessness. Science the shit out of that Matt Damon.
3. Stellar cast though. It’s a veritable who’s who.
4. Fox pushed the US release of the film ahead by two months to avoid a run in with the new Hunger Games (2015) and the latest Rocky flick (2015). Daniel Radcliffe’s latest, Victor Frankenstein, has been pushed to November instead.
5. They are going all out with this one. There are viral videos and even scripts getting launched into space.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Jimmy Kimmel got it right.
Release Date: November 27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGj5EffwnDg
A entirely subjective montage of recycled virals, lesser-known videoderps and Vines from this Ask Reddit ‘Try Not To Laugh’ thread.
You are challenged to resist laughter and report back honestly.
There’s hope yet.
A MAT checkpoint leads to recovery of stolen items in Dublin (An Garda Síochána/Facebook)
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
This afternoon
Former workers and supporters and Fianna Fail leader Michael Martin gather outside Clery’s, O’Connell Street, Dublin for a rally organised by SIPTU to protest against the store’s abrupt closure.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
UPDATE:
#Clerys liquidators have left a meeting with @SIPTU making no comment to the waiting media #TV3News pic.twitter.com/Rvmla3qt2Y
— Brian O’Donovan (@BrianODTV3) June 16, 2015
#Clerys liquidators tell unions there are no funds to pay redundancies & back pay – all monies owed will have to be claimed from the state — Brian O’Donovan (@BrianODTV3) June 16, 2015
‘Statutory redundancy only’ for 130 Clerys staff (RTÉ)
Pics via SIPTU, Brian O’Donovan, Richard Chambers, Peadar Mac Gaoithín Deirde Farrelly
Earlier:
Free at Noon?
Via SIPTU
SIPTU calls on public to join rally outside Clery’s (Irish Examiner)
Denis O’Brien
In court today, Mr Cush said the proceedings are against the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, Ireland and the Attorney General and his side wants declarations in relation to matters mentioned in the context of Mr [Denis] O’Brien’s other proceedings against RTÉ, brought over a planned broadcast concerning Mr O’Brien’s personal banking affairs with IBRC.
It is also understood he will argue that permitting the utterance to be made amounts to breach of his rights under the Constitution and European Convention on Human Rights.
Denis O’Brien brings case over Dáil comments about banking affairs (Irish Times)
A hi-res timelapse of the eruption of the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile last April by Martin Heck of Timestorm Films.
