“Karen was our only daughter, cherished by our family and loved by her friends. She was an outgoing girl, who travelled the world where she met lots of people and thoroughly enjoyed her life. We will miss her terribly.”

Tributes poured in for Cork student Karen Buckley after her body was found on a farm in north Glasgow.

The university where Karen Buckley began her nursing studies is today honouring the memory of a popular graduate whose “main aim in life was to help people”.

A friend and neighbour of Karen Buckley said she is haunted by the thought of Karen’s body being found on an isolated Scottish farm so far from her native Cork.

A fundraising page set up to help the family of Karen Buckley has raised over £50,000 (€69,377) in just 24 hours.

“There is an outpouring of love and helplessness,” said Mourneabbey-born Fr Seán Corkery as he tried to sum up the feelings of a small tight-knit community experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions as news filtered back from Glasgow that police had officially identified Karen Buckley’s body.

IT is beyond the imagination of most people what the parents and brothers of Cork student Karen Buckley are suffering.

Hundreds of people gathered at a church in Mourneabbey last night for a Mass of Hope for missing student Karen Buckley as word filtered through that police in Scotland had detained a man for questioning in relation to her disappearance.

As the search for missing Cork woman Karen Buckley continued last night, her friends and family thanked the public for their support and well wishes.

Less than 700m separates the two key locations in the search for Karen Buckley.

There were dramatic developments in the search for missing Cork woman Karen Buckley last night, as Glasgow Police cordoned off a farm north of the city as part of their investigation into the student’s disappearance.

The search for a missing Cork woman in Scotland has focused on a park and countryside north of the Glasgow nightclub where she was last seen by her friends in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The Sanctuary nightclub, where Karen Buckley was last seen, is a busy nightspot popular with students and young people living in the city’s West End that has been open for more than a decade.

While the sun shone brightly on a rural community in Co Cork, there was a cloud of anxiety hanging over locals yesterday as they tuned into news bulletins in the hope missing Karen Buckley would be found safe and well many miles away in Glasgow.

“We just want Karen home safely, we are desperate. She is our only daughter, we love her dearly.”

The search for missing Cork woman Karen Buckley goes on. Joe Leogue reports on the sequence of events surrounding her disappearance in Glasgow