Rachel’s mother reveals struggle to keep going

The mother of murdered Rachel O’Reilly has spoken of how she struggled with the will to keep on living after her daughter was murdered by her husband.

The 30-year-old mother of two was beaten to death in 2004 by her husband Joe O’Reilly at their Dublin home in one of the country’s most infamous murder cases.

Her mother Rose Callaly was speaking on the Ray D’Arcy Show yesterday, along with the brother of a young mother killed on Christmas Day with her two daughters, on the families of murder victims being forgotten by the justice system.