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Although Monday, October 4, 2004 may have begun as a calm day for Rose Callaly, it turned into a mother’s worst nightmare, a nightmare that she’s never been able to wake up from. That afternoon, when she went to her daughter’s home, 30-year-old Rachel O’Reilly, she found her on her bedroom floor, brutally murdered & beaten to the point that she was unrecognizable. It is an image that will forever be locked in her mind.
That Monday in October 2004 was an absolutely gorgeous, crisp autumn day that was much drier & milder than what was typical for that time of year. Rose was home with her husband, Jim & their three sons, Declan, Paul & Anthony. Jim, who owned his own plumbing business, was working from home that day, something that didn’t happen very often.
That afternoon Rose decided to make lunch for her husband & sons & as they all sat around eating & chatting, the phone rang. Her son-in-law, Joe O’Reilly, who was Rachel’s husband of thirteen years, told her that Rachel hadn’t picked their 2-year-old up from daycare as she always did, so he wondered if she’d heard from her.
Rose knew that something must be terribly wrong since Rachel was a very attentive mother who would have contacted her or a friend had she been unable to pick her boys up from school. Joe explained that he was on his way to the daycare so she told him that she would go to their house to see if Rachel was there.
At 1:45 pm, when Rose pulled up to Rachel & Joe’s bungalow, she was immediately concerned since Rachel’s car was parked in the driveway & the two family dogs, a labrador & a springer spaniel, were outside by the front of the house. The curtains were drawn which was very unusual & as she made her way to the back of the house, Rose found the patio doors wide open. As she entered the house, she noticed that the kitchen faucet was on full blast & the contents of some of the drawers had been strewn across the floor.
As Rose walked through the house in the direction of the sitting room, she called out her daughter’s name, but she was met with only silence. There were videos scattered everywhere & it was obvious that something was terribly wrong. As she continued through the hall in the direction of the bedrooms & bathrooms, there was still no sign of Rachel.
What Rose saw when she entered her daughter’s bedroom is something she will never be able to rid from her mind, something that made her instantly feel that part of her died in that moment. Blood was spattered across the walls, ceilings & doors & her baby girl’s lifeless, battered body was lying on the floor with blood pooling around her. It was such an incomprehensible sight that Rose isn’t able to even attempt to describe what she actually saw, but it’s a memory she is sure will haunt her until her dying day.
Rachel Callaly was born on October 10, 1973 in Dublin, Ireland. She was adopted by Jim & Rose Callaly & raised in a happy, loving family as the third child of five, all of whom had been adopted. When she was 14-years-old, the family relocated to Australia, but they only stayed one year before they moved back to their home country of Ireland since they missed it so much.
According to Rose, like her three brothers & one sister, Rachel quickly grew into a capable, enthusiastic child who put her heart & soul into everything that she did. She was a bubbly girl who made friends wherever she went.
When Rachel was 17-years-old, she met a 19-year-old Joe O’Reilly while she was working at her part-time job at one of the city’s biggest department stores, Arnotts. Joe was 18 months older & was working full-time in the men’s department. He said that it was Rachel’s height that initially captivated his attention; she stood at 5’11” while he was 6’4”. Once Joe convinced Rachel to go out on a date, the two immediately hit it off & he soon became her first & only love.
Joe’s parents divorced when he was a child & his father moved to England while his mom remained in Ireland, caring for the children, including Joe’s sister, who had a disability. With his father out of their day-to-day lives, Joe stepped up as the male figure in their home & he hoped to one day get married & have a family of his own.
When Rachel brought Joe home to meet her family, Jim & Rose saw him as a polite young man who seemed to make their daughter happy.
When they were traveling to France in 1994, Joe proposed at the top of the Eiffel Tower in what sounded like a fairytale moment. Three years later, Joe & Rachel got married in April 1997 & Rose recalls the smile on her daughter’s face that shone with love as she danced in her new husband’s arms. Before they settled into their lives together, they traveled to Kenya for their honeymoon. Over the next several years, they focused on their careers where Rachel worked for solicitors & Joe worked for a software company.
Rachel & Joe had their first child, a son they named Luke, in March 2000 & the following year their son Adam was born in October 2001. Now a family of four, the O’Reillys moved to Naul, a village at the northern edge of County Dublin that was a quiet, safe place to raise children.
After their sons were born, Rachel began working in sales for Avon & Tupperware which allowed her flexibility to be home with her young boys while Joe was a manager with an outdoor advertising firm. Joe was traveling often for his job, but Rachel made it work, balancing their young children with her career & the household while Rose worried that her daughter would be lonely living out in the country with her husband often gone.
Rachel’s family couldn’t help but notice that Joe didn’t mingle much with them during get togethers since he tended to either play with the children or watch TV. He wasn’t rude, but they felt he could sometimes be cold & distant. Rose recalls a time when he made a crack at Rachel about her size, a comment that clearly hurt her daughter since she struggled to lose her post-pregnancy weight.
Rumors began to swirl that Joe was having an affair & both he & Rachel confided in friends that their marriage lacked affection. According to Rachel’s friend, who just so happened to know someone who worked at the same company as Joe, Indicated that Joe never actually had to travel overnight for work as he so often had been doing. This left the question, where had he been when Rachel thought he was away working?
Although Rachel’s friends suspected there were deeper issues in her marriage, she was a very private person who didn’t often air the extent of the issues that she was dealing with.
Things came to a boiling point on Sunday, October 3, 2004, one day before Rose found her daughter’s beaten body in her home. Rachel heard one of her sons talking about, Daddy’s friend, Nikki. Rachel suspected that Nikki was her husband’s mistress & she was furious at the idea that her children might know this woman. Because of their heated argument, Joe ended up sleeping in the guest bedroom that night.
On the day that Rachel was murdered, Monday morning, October 4, 2004, Joe said that he left for the gym at 5:30 am where he planned to meet his co-worker, Derek Quearney. From there, he headed to work & this was something Derek confirmed as accurate.
Rachel was supposed to pick their son up from school that day, but at 1 pm, the school contacted Joe to inform him that she hadn’t done so. He tried calling her, but she wasn’t answering & this was the point that he called Rose to see if she had heard from or seen Rachel.
Now faced with the unimaginable sight of her daughter’s bludgeoned body, Rose knew instantly that Rachel was dead. She was laying on her back with her upper body twisted to one side; she wore a gray sweatshirt & gray sweatpants & blood covered her body & pooled on the floor around her head. There was so much congealed blood that Rose couldn’t even tell if her daughter was lying face down or if her face was positioned to the side.
Rose knelt next to her daughter’s still, cold body & said her name over & over, hoping that if she called her enough, she might hear her, while in her heart, she realized this was impossible. Rose doesn’t know how long she knelt next to her daughter’s body, talking to her as she stroked her arms. She recalls feeling more alone & utterly desolate in those moments than she ever had in her life.
When Rose tried to call emergency services, she was so upset that she was unable to work the phone. When she noticed Rachel’s phone, she began pushing numbers at random until a man eventually answered. She asked him for help & told him that she believed her daughter was dead. He asked her for details & contacted emergency services. Rose then spoke with her husband & told him the horrible news & Jim & their son, Paul, headed over.
When Rachel’s neighbor, Sarah, arrived, she told Rose that she was able to hear her screams from the road. After this moment, Rose recalls everything happening very quickly. When she heard a car pull up on the driveway at about 2:30 pm, she ran outside figuring it would be Joe & the boys. She wanted to prevent them from coming inside & seeing their wife & mother in such an unimaginable way. As she got outside, she saw Joe standing on the driveway with their 2-year-old, Adam, & she learned that Rachel’s friend was picking up their 4-year-old, Luke. Joe had a smile on his face & Rose grappled with how she was going to tell him that his wife & the mother of his boys was dead, something she knew would take his smile away for a long time.
Although she doesn’t even clearly remember the moment, Rose assumes she must have told him the news as quickly as she could that Rachel was dead. Another friend soon arrived & took their son by the hand & guided him to her car. Adam happily went along, having absolutely no idea that his life was forever changed, too young to understand that he would never see his mom again after the kiss goodbye she gave them that morning.
As Rose went back into the master bedroom with Joe, she felt utterly heartbroken for him, so much so that she struggled to breathe. As he reached Rachel’s body, he placed two fingers to her neck to check for a pulse & moved a box of books away that had been near her head. Rose felt confused since she expected him to run to his wife & lift her body in an attempt to hold her, but he didn’t. Instead, he bent over her battered body & said, Jesus, Rachel, what did you do?
Detective Pat Marry quickly saw that the O”Reilly home was in disarray as if it had been ransacked. There was broken glass & overturned furniture as if Rachel’s murder had been a robbery gone wrong. Rachel was found with her keys clutched in her hand as if she’d been attacked just as she came home from dropping the boys off at school.
Detective Marry described the brutal scene saying, It’s a sight I will never forget, my god, she was pulverised. Her hair was matted in blood, over her ear there was, you could see down to her skull, it was about 5 inches long. You could see there was severe force used to inflict that, so the poor woman had no chance whatsoever, absolutely none. It was savage, cold, just unbelievable.
The autopsy proved that Rachel died from blunt force trauma from multiple blows to the head. Her body showed signs of a struggle as there were defensive wounds to her hands & arms that proved she had fought for her life.
Residents of the small village of Naul were shocked & terrified by the young mother’s brutal murder & the fact that her killer was still on the loose.
Rachel’s funeral was held one week after her murder on October 11, one day after she would have celebrated her 31st birthday. As loved ones gathered, they each placed a letter they’d written to Rachel inside her coffin. Joe placed his letter inside last & the family allowed him a private moment with his wife.
Investigators went to neighboring houses to determine if anyone had seen anything suspicious on the day that Rachel was murdered, but they hadn’t. Since Joe & Rachel had been married for thirteen years at that point, he was one of the first people that investigators spoke with.
He told investigators that he left their house that morning at 5:30 am in his navy Fiat Marea to meet his co-worker at the Jackie Skelly gym in Park West, a location that is 23 miles from his home & would have taken him about 35 minutes to drive. He planned to meet his co-worker, Derek Quearney, at 6:30 am, & he stopped for gas along the way.
Once at the gym, rather than working out, he & his Derek used the sauna, showered & left separately for their office at Viacom Outdoor Advertising within the Bluebell Industrial Estate. Derek worked for the company as a delivery manager while Joe was the operations manager. Joe arrived at the office at 7:45 am & he told investigators that he & Derek left again at about 8:45 am to go to the Broadstone bus depot in the city center where they were going to check on an advertising poster.
Joe said he was back at the office midday where he remained until he got the call from his son’s daycare that Rachel hadn’t picked him up. When he was asked about their relationship, he said that it had normal ups & downs, but it was a good marriage. He denied ever being unfaithful to Rachel & didn’t think she had ever been unfaithful either.
Because Rachel’s family was in such a state of shock, they couldn’t even begin to wrap their heads around who could have possibly been responsible for her murder. Rose recalls that on the day of her daughter’s burial, the police gave Joe the keys back to his house & told him they wanted to meet him there the following day to identify what items, if any, were missing from the house.
Rachel had a large sum of money in her purse when she was murdered, but it hadn’t been taken. Although jewlery & a camcorder had been stolen from the home, police soon recovered these items in the surrounding area where they’d been dumped.
When Rose spoke with Joe the next day, he told her he felt a great sense of peace after he went back to the house that he once shared with Rachel & their boys. He indicated that he planned to continue living there. He asked the family if they wanted to go back with him, but Rose had absolutely no intention of going back to the place where, just over a week before, she’d found her daughter’s beaten & unrecognizable body. Jim thought about & said that if it helped Joe come to terms with his wife’s death, maybe it would help them too.
Rose reluctantly returned to her daughter’s house & while she, Jim, their son, Paul & their daughter-in-law, Denise, were there, they found Joe’s behavior both bizarre & highly upsetting. As Rose was stripping the beds & trying to straighten up, everyone was in Joe & Rachel’s bedroom when Joe began to re-enact how he thought the person responsible must have killed Rachel. They were stunned when he got down on his knees & began acting out the blows to her body that would have resulted in the blood that still remained spattered on the walls. Rose only wanted him to stop, but instead, he moved on to the bathroom where he theorized the killer went to clean up. While there, he said that the killer probably heard Rachel gurgling & went back to the bedroom to finish her off.
As they made their way to the kitchen, Rose felt utterly sick to her stomach. Joe asked if anyone wanted to hear the answering machine messages from the day Rachel was murdered. Everyone stayed quiet, but regardless, Joe played the messages of himself calling his wife, as if he wanted to prove that he had been concerned for her.
As Rose stood there, she suddenly heard her daughter’s voice in her head speak the words, He did it. Rose admits that though this probably sounds strange, she could clearly hear her daughter as if someone was kicking her in the stomach. At the time, she questioned if she was losing her grip on reality, but when she left her daughter’s house that day, she knew in her heart that without a doubt whatsoever, Joe had been responsible.
Later that night when Rose spoke with Jim about her thoughts, he got upset & pleaded with her not to talk about it with anyone else. He chalked Joe’s actions up to his way of dealing with grief & the fact that he was so cool & calm because he was still in a state of shock. He felt there was absolutely no way Joe could have done that to their daughter.
According to Rose, it took quite some time for Jim to begin to wrap his head around the worst-case scenario that their daughter’s husband, the father of the grandchildren, could have been capable of murdering Rachel. In the meantime, when Joe would come for a visit, Rose couldn’t bring herself to look in his direction & she was sure that he knew that she knew.
There were also red flags they noticed in the things Joe said to reporters during his interviews. One reporter asked him about finding Rachel’s body & he described in detail where she had been struck. Since Joe spent very little time with Rachel’s body, Rose found it strange that he seemed to know so much about her injuries.
Despite the fact that Joe initially claimed to have a great marriage with Rachel & denied infidelity on either end, by 7pm on the night of the murder, he finally admitted to investigators that they’d had some difficulties in their relationship. He said he’d had an affair, but claimed that it was over.
But as they dug deeper, it was clear that Joe’s affair was far from over. He was currently in a relationship that had been going on for six months with a co-worker, 34-year-old Nikki Pelley. They had been actively meeting up 3-4 times a week at her house before Rachel’s murder & she’d even met Rachel’s children on a number of occasions, usually Saturday afternoons at her home or when they took them to the zoo together.
According to Nikki, she & Joe had been planning a future together & three weeks before Rachel’s murder, he referred to her as my beautiful bride to be in a text message. She previously worked with Joe, but after she left the job, they reconnected at an event in January 2004 & kept in contact after the function. Within the next month or so, their relationship became romantic & sexual. After Joe made an appeal to find Rachel’s killer on The Late Late Show two weeks after her murder, he ended up spending the night with Nikki afterwards.
Rachel’s family learned that Nikki Pelley had given Joe an ultimatum that he had to leave Rachel by November 2004 or their relationship would be over.
Investigators also discovered emails from Joe’s laptop that was seized from his workplace that he exchanged with his sister, Ann, on June 9, four months before the murder. He wrote about how Rachel had issues dealing with their children & shouted at them on a daily basis. He referred to her as a lazy c**t & when Ann asked if he was going out for a romantic meal with Rachel, he replied, Where the hell did you hear I was going for a night out with that c**t???? A meal? I’d rather choke. He also wrote, Me + Rachel + Marriage = over!!!
He indicated that Rachel repulsed him & he fixated on the thought of her getting custody of their children if they did divorce, writing that he didn’t want to be Mr Weekend Custody. He also wrote about an anonymous complaint to social services that Joe’s own mother Ann had made. She called social services on Rachel to falsely accuse her of not looking after their children.
Although Joe was the sole suspect in his wife’s murder, he was released without charge after he was questioned while police continued to build their case. As investigators were able to gather electronic data, they had enough evidence to arrest Joe O’Reilly & charge him for his wife’s murder in 2006.
Nikki Pelley was arrested for withholding information about Rachel’s murder after investigators discovered that she & Joe called each other eight times on the day of the murder. She later said that Joe told her that he would kill Rachel if he thought he could get away with it, but she never took this comment seriously.
Derek Quearney, the colleague who provided an alibi for Joe, was also charged with providing false information. He & Joe had gone to the gym together that morning, but when Derek left the office for the bus depot somewhere around 9 am, he couldn’t find Joe after he arrived at 9:30 am. He called him at about 9:25 am to see where he was & Joe told him he was down at the back of the pits in the garage. After Derek was arrested, he admitted that his timing could have been wrong as to when he did meet up with Joe at the bus depot that day.
Joe pleaded not guilty & the trial began on June 25, 2007 & lasted three weeks. The prosecution alleged that Joe went to the gym & then to the office as he originally told investigators, but rather than going to the bus depot as he claimed, he left the office to go back home & wait for his wife to come back from taking their boys to school that morning. When she unsuspectingly came into their bedroom, he bludgeoned her to death with a series of heavy blows that left her unconscious. It’s likely she laid on the floor for hours before she died.
The medical examiner, Dr. Marie Cassidy, testified that Rachel had been struck anywhere from four to nine times in the head with a heavy blunt object that caused two fractures in her skull. Some of the blows happened while she was in an upright position while the rest happened while she was laying on the floor. There were also eight lacerations to her head & a series of bruises to her neck, arms & shoulder. She died from blunt force trauma & from inhaling her own blood. Defensive wounds proved that she desperately tried to protect herself from the attack.
Investigators had been unable to find the murder weapon although Joe told a family friend at Rachel’s funeral that he didn’t know why investigators were searching the fields & said, it’s in the water. After he made this statement, it was as if he realized he said something he shouldn’t have & further elaborated, Well, if I did it, that’s where it would be. There’s water all around. That would get rid of all the DNA.
After Joe murdered Rachel, he took a shower & put his bloodied clothing in the wash as blood evidence was found on the washing machine. He ransacked the house to make it look like a burglary & then on his way to the bus depot, he disposed of jewelry & other items that he’d taken from his house along the way to reinforce the idea of a burglary. However, since he forgot to take the large sum of money from Rachel’s purse, this made investigators believe that the scene had been staged.
Although Joe claimed to be at the bus depot in Broadstone at 9 am, Derek said he couldn’t be sure of seeing him there before 11 am. Joe made sure to bump into Derek at the bus depot before he headed back to the office in order to establish an alibi.
Electronic evidence & CCTV footage painted a clear picture of both Joe & Rachel’s movements that day. There were more than 90 transmissions made to & from Joe’s phone that day & it was these calls & messages that served as a tracking device, following his movements all over Dublin.
He left their home at 5:45 am to meet Derek at the gym on the outskirts of Dublin. On his way, he stopped at a gas station to fill up his tank & while he was there, he received a call from Nikki & they spoke for 28 minutes. This was one of eight calls between them that day.
From the gym he arrived at his office at 7:45 am & sent an email to his colleague, Ciaran Gallagher, letting him know that he might be out of phone coverage for most of the morning & arranged a lunch meeting with him at 2 pm.
According to CCTV, Joe left his office at 8:07 am & although he claimed he was going to the CIE depot in Broadstone, he went back to his house. Nikki Pelley called him at 8:12 am & his phone was just north of where he worked. Not only did CCTV show his car passing the quarry near his home at 9:25 am, but when Derek called him at this same time, Joe’s phone was being routed through Murphy’s quarry near his home in Naul.
Rachel left their home that morning shortly before 9 am & had been in the midst of dropping their eldest son, Luke, off at school before she dropped their younger son, Adam, off at daycare. At 9:41 am CCTV showed her car passing the same quarry near their home that Joe’s car had passed sixteen minutes earlier.
Rachel got back home at approximately 9:45 am & based on evidence in the home, Joe was waiting for her in their bedroom where he bludgeoned her to death with possibly a dumbbell or a wooden post. About 14 minutes after Rachel came home, Joe’s car was seen driving back in the direction of his office at 9:59 am.
At 9:52 am, Joe’s colleague, Ciaran Gallagher, who he’d planned to meet for lunch at 2 pm, texted him to cancel their appointment & this was also routed through the quarry near their home. This information proved that his alibi had been a lie & he hadn’t spent the morning at his office & at the bus depot as he claimed.
When he sent Rachel the text message, You & the boys sleep ok? Wish Jacqui a Happy Birthday for me please xxx, he indicated that he was in Phibsborough, Dublin, but cell towers indicate that he was near his home 34 miles (55 km) away. This text was likely sent after Rachel was dead & he also left several voicemails on her phone between 11:52 am & 1:45 pm.
At 1:15 pm, when Joe got a call from Tots United where Adam went to daycare & he was told that Rachel hadn’t picked him up, he began calling & leaving her messages, expressing how worried he was. On his way to get Adam, he called his mother-in-law to check on Rachel, knowing full well that she would find her daughter’s brutalized body. He took his time, wanting to be sure that Rose would beat him to their house to make the gruesome discovery.
When he arrived at the daycare at 2:05 pm, the teacher noticed that he seemed a little flushed. From there, he went to Luke’s school, which ended at 2 pm & when he arrived at 2:12 pm, he was told that his son had left with another mother whose daughter attended the school.
As part of the investigation, Rachel’s body was exhumed in March 2005 & a five-page handwritten letter was recovered from Joe in her coffin that was dated October 8, 2004, four days after Rachel was killed. It read, Rachel, I love you so very very much. I can’t think of what to do without you. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me. This is the hardest letter I’ve ever had to write, for reasons only we know. He wished her a happy 31st birthday & also wrote, Rachel, forgive me. Two words, one sentence. I’ll say them forever.
Rachel’s birth mother, Teresa Lowe, who gave her up for adoption after having her at 17, but got back into contact with her when Rachel turned 18, attended each day of the trial. She also told Rose & Jim that she would fully support them in any legal battle that they might face to gain custody of their grandchildren. Rachel’s birth sister, Sandra, was also at the trial & she later named her baby girl, Sophia Rachel in honor of her.
In July 2007, Joe O’Reilly was found guilty in a unanimous verdict & sentenced to life in prison, although in Ireland, the average life sentence is 20 years & after serving 12 years, prisoners can apply for parole.
Rachel’s two sons were initially cared for by Joe’s family, specifically his mom, Ann, & later his brother, Derek. Although Rachel’s parents voiced their intent to seek custody, there’s no clear public record to confirm a custody battle while sources suggest that Joe’s family retained primary care for at least some time.
Joe’s father, Joe O’Reilly senior, spoke out about how he was still in shock & could not understand what prompted his son to commit murder. He indicated that Joe was a normal kid who was quiet, liked football & was never violent. He admits that he’s unable to forgive his son for what he’s done.
From early on, investigators believed that a dumbbell was used as the murder weapon as Joe asked them to check on the weightlifting equipment in their house, suggesting they might find the murder weapon there. In 2013, a dumbbell was found in a stream not far from the O’Reilly home, but it was unclear if it was linked to Rachel’s murder.
In 2009, Rose Callaly wrote a book about her daughter’s murder titled, Remembering Rachel: A True Story of Betrayal and Murder. Writing the book was a way for Rose to process information that she felt was too surreal to deal with & found the process both painful & therapeutic.
Writing also made Rose remember red flags in her daughter’s marriage that she dismissed when Rachel was alive. She recalls Joe withdrawing from their side of the family in the months leading up to her death & that she’d seen her daughter in tears after what she assumed was an argument with Joe. When Rose spoke with Rachel’s friends, they said that they were also unaware of what was really going on, other than little bits of information that were spread amongst the group. These bits made it clear that she was unhappy & Joe was controlling & manipulative. Rose feels regret that she didn’t realize sooner that something was wrong in her daughter’s life.
Although she has learned to cope with the pain, Rachel is the first thing Rose thinks of when she wakes up & that last thing she thinks of when she goes to bed.
The Callaly family faced another tragedy in 2010 when Rachel’s sister, Ann Callaly, died at age 31 after losing her battle with cancer. In January 2008, she discovered she had a tumor behind her eye & underwent aggressive treatment, but after a short period of remission, she learned that the tumor returned. Rachel’s father, Jim, suddenly died in 2024 after spending many years fighting alongside his wife to stop Joe from getting parole.
Since 2014, Joe has applied for parole every two years, all of which have been denied since he refuses to take responsibility or show remorse. He is currently detained in the Midlands Prison after he was moved due to issues with other inmates.
References:
- Wikipedia: Naul, County Dublin
- Irish Independent: ‘Rachel, forgive me’
- Extra.ie: Timeline – how Joe O’Reilly killed his wife, and thought he got away with it
- RTE: Life sentences: What is the reality in modern Ireland?
- Daily Mail: ‘My son-in-law murdered my daughter’: One mother’s chilling discovery
- The Guardian: Rose Callaly: ‘I heard my daughter’s voice say: ‘He did it’
- Irish Independent: Rachel’s birth family hopes that Callaly will look after her boys
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- Irish Independent: ‘I still can’t forgive my son for killing Rachel’
- Irish Examiner: Dumbbell may be tied to O’Reilly murder
- Irish Independent: ‘Jim is re-united with his beloved daughters’ – Rachel Callaly’s father remembered as a man who always put family first
- Irish Independent: Rachel O’Reilly’s sister Ann dies after cancer battle
- Irish Independent: Murder weapon used to bludgeon Rachel O’Reilly may finally be found
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