One of the survivors of the Berkeley balcony tragedy has been taken off the critical list in hospital in San Francisco and has started to wake from an induced coma.
Aoife Beary is one of the seven Irish students injured when an apartment balcony collapsed on 16 June, killing six students.
She has been treated at the Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, California, since being transferred from Highland Hospital on 26 June.
A statement on the 'Friends of Aoife Beary' Facebook page said her condition has improved over recent days following successful heart surgery.
It says that Aoife is still in intensive care but no longer on the critical list.
The 21-year-old has slowly started to awaken from an induced coma, but the statement added that this process is expected to take some time.
The statement also said she has also started some communication with her parents and the medical team, adding that she has had a tracheotomy within the last week and continues to make progress on her "long road to recovery."
The family of another student seriously injured in the collapse has also spoken of her progress in recent weeks.
Clodagh Cogley is recovering at a rehabilitation centre in San Francisco. In a Facebook post the 21-year-old explained that she had broken her spinal cord, shoulder, knee and five ribs.
Two of the seven people injured have since been released from hospital. Conor Flynn is still in the San Francisco area as he is not yet permitted to fly, while Sean Fahey has returned to Ireland following treatment.
Niall Murray, Jack Halpin and Hannah Waters are all still receiving medical treatment for their injuries.
Five Irish students in California on J1 visas and one Irish-American - Eoghan Culligan, Eimear Walsh, Niccolai Schuster, Olivia Burke, Lorcán Miller and Ashley Donohoe - died in the balcony collapse.
