He wrote on Twitter: “Thinking of the families and friends of Andrew and Max and all leaving cert students abroad in Greece who were enjoying holidays after exams and are now encountering such shock and pain and grief.” Ireland’s minister for further and higher education, Simon Harris, called the news “devastating”. School leavers on the trip were said to have been left “absolutely traumatised” by the tragedy. “His body was found among rocks on a pathway on Sunday morning,” the police officer said.

After he failed to appear, friends raised the alarm, setting off a police search. Greek media reports suggested O’Donnell and others in the party had been drinking heavily when he decided to walk back to his rented room as night began to fall. Everyone is saying what is true, that the incident is like an ancient Greek tragedy. “Wall collapsed when he heard what had happened. “The search for O’Donnell began hours earlier when worried friends reported him missing on Saturday night,” said the source, requesting anonymity. The cause of death in both cases will become clearer once they are carried out.”Īnother police officer on Ios said witnesses who were with Wall described the young man as becoming very distressed when he was told the news about his friend. We have since heard he had a history of heart problems but the answers lie in the autopsies. “Wall was found very close to the place where he was staying. “O’Donnell was found on a path between the port and Ios town and it seems he had fallen,” said Brigadier Thanos Loukas, the directorate’s commanding officer. The regional police directorate of the south Aegean handling the affair said it expected the postmortems to yield answers. Bright, sporting, academic men … who were looking forward to this trip for months on end,” he told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland. “We have a very tight-knit community and these are two fantastic young men with their lives ahead of them. “We’re heartbroken,” said Tim Kelleher, the principal of St Michael’s College, a Catholic boys’ school where weeks earlier the teenagers had sat their leaving exams. They died hours apart in different areas of Ios. The two Dublin classmates were part of a 69-strong group on a school graduation excursion to the Cycladic isle.

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