Overview

• At a Sept. 26 inquest in Kilrush, the coroner returned an accidental-death verdict in Roxan Bastaens’ May 2024 fall.
• Eyewitness statements said she slipped while edging around a large puddle near the cliff, with friends unable to reach her in time.
• A postmortem found polytrauma and indicated her death was instantaneous; toxicology detected no alcohol or drugs.
• The 20-year-old University of Edinburgh student had been hiking with three friends, and the RNLI recovered her body at 3:10 p.m. local time.
• Large stretches of the route have been closed since August 2024 over safety concerns, and experts say substantial construction is needed to restore safe access.