Families of the victims of yesterday's tragic balcony collapse in Berkeley, California have begun arriving in the US.

All six victims of the incident were named at a press conference last night - they are: Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan, Niccolai Schuster, Lorcan Miller, Eimear Walsh - all aged 21 and from Ireland, and 22-year-old Irish-American Ashley Donohoe from Rohnert Park in California, who's understood to be a cousin of one of those who was injured.

7 others were injured in the accident at the apartment complex - they're being treated at a number of different hospitals.

A structural assessment of the building's remaining balconies is to be completed within 48 hours.

UCD - where some of those who died were students - has opened a book of condolence on their website, while one will also be opened at the Mansion House in Dublin on Thursday.

Philip Grant is the Consul General of Ireland to the Western US: