‘Jill is looking down on us now’ as 150 walk in her memory

A month after she went missing, close to 150 people, many who had never met her, walked in memory of Drogheda woman Jill Meagher yesterday afternoon.

The circumstances of her disappearance, as she walked home after a night out with colleagues in Melbourne, have echoed with families around the world and yesterday her aunt, Catherine McKeon Halpin, said Jill would have wanted women “to live their life and not be afraid”.

Speaking as she watched young girls play frisbee in St Dominic’s Park, Drogheda, after the walk, Ms McKeon Halpin said: “Those girls playing, in their pink legwarmers, should, in 20 years, be able to go and live their lives. They should not feel they have to look over their shoulders. They should not be afraid to go out. That is what Jill would want. It is what she did.”