A woman whose humanist marriage was described as "mumbo-jumbo" and "away with the fairies" by a district court judge has had her four-month jail term lifted on appeal.

The husband of missing Tina Satchwell insists he did not kill his wife as gardaí search woodland in the hope of solving the mystery of her disappearance.

Gardaí have named the pedestrian killed in a road accident in Co Donegal yesterday morning.