Cork student (20) who died after falling ill on French skiing trip named locally

"Student Cian O'Brien, from Gleann na Ri, Tower, near Blarney, is understood to have died on Sunday night during a trip with a skiing and snowboarding group at a resort in the French Alps. Mr O'Brien is reported to have been working as an electrical apprentice with a pharmaceutical company in Cork, and being with a group of friends who had gone to France with the Cork Snow Sports Society."

""This is every parent's nightmare. You hug your child and you drop them to the airport or whatever and you say 'go on away and have a ball and we'll talk to you when you come back. Enjoy yourself' and the next thing you're faced with is this, the ultimate horror," he said. "There's never a good time of the year but this is awful. My heart breaks for the family. I don't know how you would deal with it," he added."

Student Cian O'Brien, from Gleann na Ri, Tower, near Blarney, died on Sunday night while on a skiing and snowboarding trip at a resort in the French Alps. He worked as an electrical apprentice with a pharmaceutical company in Cork and travelled with friends from the Cork Snow Sports Society. Friends found him unresponsive Monday morning and emergency services' resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful. Local Fine Gael councillor Damian Boylan described the death as every parent's nightmare and spoke of community sadness and the family's involvement with Blarney United football club. The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust and the Department of Foreign Affairs are assisting with repatriation and consular support.

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