Tributes paid to Irish hiker (39) who died in Sardinia TheJournal.ie [Video]

TRIBUTES HAVE BEEN paid to an Irish hiker who died while hiking in Sardinia, Italy last Friday.

A major search operation in Sardinia was stood down on Sunday, 8 September last after the body of an Irish mountain climber who has been missing since Friday afternoon has been discovered.

He has been named locally as John Bergin (39) from Claude Road, Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 and formerly of Kilkenny City. John worked as a librarian with Fingal County Council in both Balbriggan and Malahide libraries. He had recently completed a masters in Librarianship and has also worked for the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA).

Paying tribute one colleague wrote: ‘’John was the nicest and most obliging person. I got to know him through our Masters course in library studies and he was so passionate about his job. The Irish library world lost a good colleague and friend’’.

The search …