Irish people among dead and missing in New Zealand earthquake

From www.rte.ie/news

The Department of Foreign Affairs says it has strong concerns for the safety of two Irish people in New Zealand following the confirmation that one Irishman died in yesterday's earthquake.
The DFA has been unable to contact a total of nine Irish people in Christchuch, with two of those being of particular concern.
75 people are confirmed to have died in the 6.3 magnitude earthquake and over 300 others remain missing.
The Irishman who died has been named as Owen McKenna. He was in his early 40s and from Co Monaghan.
He was married to a woman from New Zealand and had been living there for several years. He had two children.
It is understood the hospital where Mr McKenna worked contacted his family in the Emyvale area of Monaghan to say he had not arrived for work after the earthquake struck.
Mr McKenna's car was crushed by falling debris.
The DFA is also providing consular assistance to an Irish woman whose husband, who held a British passport, was killed in the earthquake.
He had also been living in New Zealand for some time.
There are approximately 200 Irish people registered in Christchurch.
Hopes of finding more survivors of the earthquake are beginning to fade as rescue staff sift through the rubble in Christchurch.
Hundreds of foreign rescuers are joining exhausted New Zealand teams in an increasingly desperate search of quake-shattered buildings in the central part of the city.
Officials have abandoned hope of finding anyone alive in the collapsed Canterbury Television (CTV) building in the city centre. Those missing inside the collapsed building include foreign students at a third-floor language school.
Of the 300 people still missing, up to 100 are thought to be in the CTV building.
Police are also warning about the possible collapse of a 26-story hotel, which would unleash a 'domino effect' on surrounding structures.
Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said the quake-prone city now faced hard decisions on rebuilding its heart.
'We are not going to walk away from this place,' Mr Parker told New Zealand television. 'We may have to level entire blocks in some places.'
The Director of New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, John Hamilton, has warned that rescue teams have a window of only two or three days to find people alive after the quake