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

It took superhuman effort to talk at all in the face of such appalling tragedy, but Edith McKeon somehow found the strength to thank the thousands that turned out in support of her murdered daughter.

The mother of murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher has thanked the public for their support.

A man is expected to be charged within hours with the rape and murder of an Irish woman missing in Australia.

It has emerged that missing Irish woman Jill Meagher, who disappeared in Melbourne, Australia over the weekend, made a worried telephone call to her brother in the early hours of Saturday morning.