Irishwoman Jill Meagher’s killer Adrian Ernest Bayley will probably die in jail after the violent sexual offender’s non-parole period was extended until he is 86.

IT is a core belief of modern, vaguely liberal democracies that it is wrong to execute a person because of a crime they have committed, or at least one they been convicted of.

The Council of Europe has found that slapping children amounts to torture, an Irish priest has said he disagrees with a Vatican official who described the referendum result as a “defeat for humanity”, answering questions raised by the proposed IAG-Aer Lingus deal and Rory McIlroy is among the stars lining out at the Irish Open. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com .

The husband of an Irish woman murdered in Australia two years ago said a new all-Ireland campaign on prostitution and sex trafficking could be a “turning point” in how the sex trade is addressed.

A Catholic priest in Australia has apologised to the family of Jill Meagher after he told primary school children the Irish woman that if she had been “more faith-filled” she would have been at home in bed the night she was raped and murdered.

An official in the Catholic Church in Australia has apologised after a priest said murdered Irishwoman Jill Meagher would have been “home in bed” the night she was killed had her religious faith been stronger.

PEOPLE of a certain age will remember, though many have deliberately forgotten, how strident some Catholic churchmen were in the pronouncements they made about issues that had little or nothing to do with religious life or faith.

The man who raped and murdered Louth native Jill Meagher in Australia in 2012 has been found guilty of three more rapes also carried out while he was on parole for a string of other crimes.

The husband of Jill Meagher, the Drogheda woman raped and murdered in Australia two years ago, has spoken out about his wife’s killer, saying he will never be able to forgive him.

Jill Meagher’s husband Tom reflects on how men become rapists, says Claire O’Sullivan

The husband of the late Jill Meagher has broken his silence about his wife’s death, penning a powerful article for the White Ribbon Campaign.

Australian police have apologised to the family of Irish murder victim Jill Meagher after a photo of her lying in a shallow grave was shown to an audience by a police detective who had investigated her killing.

An Australian court of appeal has said the rapist who killed Jill Meagher deserved the "sternest" sentence possible.

In Australia, in remembrance of Irishwoman Jill Meagher more than 30,000 people have marched past the place where she was abducted last year.

Killer Adrian Ernest Bayley will be 76 before he is eligible for parole for the murder of Irishwoman Jill Meagher.

The man who raped and murdered Irishwoman Jill Meagher in Australia has lost his bid to have his sentence reduced.

A scathing review of a parole system in Australia has criticised a decision to set a “recidivist serious, violent, sexual offender” loose months before he killed Irishwoman Jill Meagher.

WITHIN our local park is a dog park — a large fenced off area where one can bring one’s dog to ‘run wild and free’ or, in other words, off the lead. It’s a good idea as it allows dogs to do their thing without compromising the safety or enjoyment of the main park for non-dog lovers. Dogs, after all, are.... well, dogs, and even though I am a dog lover and owner, I think that this is exactly how it should be.

The decision by murdered Jill Meagher’s husband, Thomas, to return to Australia “took a lot of courage”, his mother Joan said.

The widower of an Irishwoman who was raped and murdered in Australia almost a year ago is to return home to “clear his head”.

The Mayor of the Australian town where Irish journalist Jill Meagher was murdered says they would like to build a memorial to her.

The man who murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher in Australia has lodged an appeal against the length of his jail term.

The memory of Jill Meagher will live on and future generations will be told, “she was the best and someone to look up to”.

The husband of murdered Jill Meagher says the man who raped and murdered his wife is “unrepentantly evil”.

Sentences must be seen to fit a crime, both for a victim’s family and society, writes John O’Keeffe

Jill Meagher's uncle says a certain justice has been done for his niece after the man convicted of the rape and murder of the Irish journalist was sentenced to at least 35 years in prison in Australia.

A serial sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Irish woman that outraged Australia’s second-largest city.

Earlier this week the appalling details of the rape and murder of Jill Meagher reminded us of how very inhumane humans can be. We might have taken comfort in the idea that such a horrendous crime would never happen here.

Every now and then something terrible happens to challenge long-accepted, core beliefs of society.

Jill Meagher made her ill father promise he would live to run around with her children.

Even Adrian Bayley himself told police he should never have been let out of jail.

Victoria’s premier says the government has moved to change parole laws so a case similar to Jill Meagher’s murder does not happen again.

An Australian based journalist said that a statement read out by the father of Jill Meagher in court in Melbourne earlier today-was particularly harrowing for all concerned.

An uncle of murdered Drogheda woman Jill Meagher has said that no words can describe the consequences of her death.

The man who raped and murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher in Australia was on parole for other rapes at the time.

Adrian Earnest Bayley will be sentenced for the rape and murder of Irish journalist Jill Meagher in Australia next Wednesday, June 19.

Tens of thousands of women will take to the streets of Dublin and Cork later this morning for the Flora women's mini marathon.

The family of Jill Meagher will be amongst those running to raise funds for the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in the Flora Women's mini marathon on Monday.

The aunts, cousins, and friends of Jill Meagher are taking part in the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon so they can raise funds for the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

The murder of Irishwoman Jill Meagher in Australia has brought the people of her hometowns closer, it was claimed yesterday.

A man has pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of an Irish woman he attacked as she walked home from a bar in Australia’s second largest city.

A 41 year old man has pleaded guilty to the murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne last September.

The man accused of the murder of Irish journalist Jill Meagher in Melbourne is expected to plead guilty in court tomorrow.

The Australian man accused of murdering Irish woman Jill Meagher will stand trial on September 30.