‘It was like the sky fell in on me’

“ALL we want to do now is to get Meg home to our parents and give her the final send-off she deserves,” a tearful James Walsh said yesterday as he prepared to leave Waterford after a 12-day search for his sister ended with the discovery of her body.

His niece and Meg’s daughter, Sasha Keating, didn’t look back as she exited the foyer of the Woodlands Hotel just before noon, two rucksacks on her back and her muddy green wellies in her right hand.

The 17-year-old has been a tower of strength to everyone in what has been a nightmare two weeks, James, Meg’s only sibling, said. “I was out searching for Meg, beating back high grass when the call arrived that her body had been found. It was like the sky fell in on me. I was so confused, so struck by it all that I couldn’t find my way back to the hotel.