The Irish Times

The Inland Sea: A woman’s search for sanity in a teetering world

Review: Madeleine Watts’s gripping debut sets mental decline against ecological disaster

Wed Mar 11 2020 - 06:00

Jill Meagher’s murderer injured in Australian prison

The 47--year-old is serving at least 40 years for raping and killing Louth woman Jill Meagher

Fri May 17 2019 - 13:18

Jill Meagher killer Adrian Bayley stabbed in prison

Bayley is serving 40 years in prison for the rape and murder of the Irish woman

Fri Sept 01 2017 - 13:01

‘Black Mirror’: Charlie Brooker’s dark, disturbing reflections of who we are

Television review: ‘Black Mirror’, ‘Crazyhead’ and ‘Paying for Sex’

Fri Oct 21 2016 - 18:00

The City at Night by Helen Garner: thoughts on the murder of Jill Meagher

One of Australia’s leading authors reflects in her new book on the aftermath of an Irishwoman’s murder in Melbourne in 2012

Tue Oct 11 2016 - 15:11

Should judges be able to impose a minimum term for murder?

Calls to reform a system where sentence review possible after seven years

Tue Sept 06 2016 - 01:00

Small parties inject colour as Australia goes to the polls

Labor looks unlikely to beat the ruling coalition in Saturday’s election

Thu Jun 30 2016 - 22:00

Jill Meagher’s murder was preventable, says Melbourne coroner

Adrian Bayley was on parole for previous rapes when he raped and murdered Irish woman

Fri May 27 2016 - 15:20

Jill Meagher’s killer ‘may have been misidentified’ in rape case

Adrian Bayley is appealing against two separate convictions in Australian court

Wed Mar 09 2016 - 16:49

Murder in Melbourne: three Irish deaths

The killings of David Greene, Jill Meagher and Dermot O’Toole in the Australian city have one uncomfortable fact in common: the perpetrators were all on parole

Fri Mar 04 2016 - 15:00

Man who killed Jill Meagher denied legal aid for appeal

Australian Adrian Bayley sought to overturn convictions over two further violent rapes

Tue Sept 01 2015 - 13:57

Jill Meagher’s killer has jail sentence extended for rapes

Adrian Bayley will be in jail until 2058 before being eligible for parole

Thu May 28 2015 - 11:11

Jill Meagher’s family focused on gaining closure

Family says reports they are joining case against Victoria are false

Fri Mar 27 2015 - 16:28

Jill Meagher killer Adrian Bayley guilty of three other rapes

Meagher’s family say parole board ‘failed to protect our daughter’ and ask for inquest not to proceed

Thu Mar 26 2015 - 08:24

Minister calls for an end to girls’ and boys’ schools

Co-education benefits young men and women, says Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Sat Mar 07 2015 - 17:13

Garda reach out to crime victims with new ‘support centres’

Specially trained gardaí will help people traumatised from violent and sexual crimes

Tue Nov 25 2014 - 17:36

Tom Meagher presents winning trophy to Australia in Perth

Husband of murdered Irish woman Jill Meagher raising awareness for the White Ribbon Oath

Sat Nov 22 2014 - 12:00

Jill Meagher’s husband speaks about violence against women and the ‘monster myth’

‘I froze because I’d been socialised to believe that men who rape are jabbering madmen’

Fri Apr 18 2014 - 13:16

Jill Meagher remembered at march in Melbourne

Thousands of people on streets to mark one year anniversary of murder of Co Louth woman

Mon Sept 30 2013 - 13:23

Irish-born Labor MPs in battle to save seats in Australian election

Sat Aug 24 2013 - 01:00

Jill Meagher killer was not on sex offenders register

Adrian Bayley not listed despite convictions for several attacks on women and children

Wed Aug 21 2013 - 09:50

Melbourne mayor tells Meagher family parole board ‘failed’

Oscar Yildiz tells murdered woman’s husband and relatives she did not die ‘in vain’

Tue Aug 13 2013 - 08:02

Melbourne authorities propose ‘safe zones’ for women

Issue of violence against women in sharp focus after Jill Meather murder

Wed Aug 07 2013 - 10:17

Jill Meagher killer appeals against length of sentence

Adrian Bayley was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 35 years

Thu Jul 18 2013 - 07:15

Adrian Bayley sentencing: revulsion seeps out of every page of judgment

Background: Jill Meagher moved to Australia at the age of seven in 1990, the year Bayley committed his first offence

Thu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00

Uncle says ‘parole or no parole, the man should never have been walking the streets’

Wed Jun 19 2013 - 20:19

New details emerge about Bayley’s past

He raped his first victim when his wife was pregnant with their first child

Wed Jun 19 2013 - 12:07

‘You have stolen from her parents their entitlement to see their daughter blossom’

Bayley, who was placed on the sex offenders register for life, bowed his head and showed no emotion as he was led away

Wed Jun 19 2013 - 11:15

Husband of Jill Meagher says sentence for rape ‘a disgrace’

Tom Meagher criticises Australian justice system for failing his wife

Wed Jun 19 2013 - 08:46

Father says justice done as Jill Meagher murderer jailed

Adrian Bayley will serve at least 35 years for ‘savage' crime

Wed Jun 19 2013 - 06:25

Information vital to sentencing and punishment

Discretion allows for compassion; limiting one could mean eclipse of the other

Mon Jun 17 2013 - 00:01

State premier ‘shocked, surprised and astounded’ killer had still been on the streets

Judge allows details of Bayley’s violent history of rapes and assaults to be revealed

Wed Jun 12 2013 - 01:00

Victim impact statements from Jill Meagher’s family and friends

The following are victim impact statements read to the court in Melbourne today at Adrian Bayley’s plea hearing

Tue Jun 11 2013 - 12:14

‘I think of her every second of every day’, Jill Meagher’s husband tells court

Court told Bayley was on parole when he raped and murdered Drogheda woman

Tue Jun 11 2013 - 07:22