A young student from Ireland has died after a kayaking incident near Washington DC, as RTÉ News reports.

TCD English Studies undergraduate Ella Mills had only recently relocated to New York as an exchange student at Columbia University.

She was on a trip with Columbia’s Whitewater Kayaking Club when the tragedy occurred on the Potomac River on Sunday (17 September).

Among those paying condolences was Tánaiste Micheál Martin, in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, who said the president of Columbia University related the “shocking devastation” among its students, faculty and staff.

Tanaiste Micheál Martin gives his condolences following the death of an Irish student in a kayaking accident in the US pic.twitter.com/09dWYqZt44

— Christina Finn (@christinafinn8) September 19, 2023

RTÉ News has more on the story HERE.