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Updated 6.19 pm
KAREN BUCKLEY’S PARENTS have made a heartfelt appeal for the safe return of their daughter.
Speaking at a press conference in Glasgow this afternoon, her mother, Marion Buckley, said, “We just want Karen home safely, we are desperate.
“She is our only daughter, we love her dearly.”
Her father, John Buckley, went on to add:
We love her to bits and we are devastated.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie earlier today, John Paul O’Shea, local councillor for the Mallow area near to where Karen is from in Cork, said there is “a growing concern in relation to her safety since she has been missing”.
On behalf of the community, our thoughts and prayers are with the family.
It was also revealed at the press conference earlier this afternoon that a handbag believed to have belonged to Karen has been found at a park in Glasgow.
Karen has now been missing for over 60 hours and is believed to have last been seen in the early hours of Sunday morning on Dorchester Avenue in the city.
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“When contacted the Mourneabbey Parish near to Buckley’s Cork home said it had no comment”
And what comment would the vultures in the media be looking for? What could some small-town priest add to the conversation about a missing persons issue in another country?
The media should only be reporting on official info from the police in charge of the case…anything else is hearsay and irrelevant.
True ! Hopefully she’s found soon
Sky News make me flucking sick. Every tragedy is entertainment for them.
i wonder what the guy who was seen with her said
Think his apartment has been blocked off ! Hopefully they get news soon , awful on the family
I really hope the journal did not contact the parish of MourneAbbey .
At this uncertain moment it would be the height of ignorance and insensitivity , what possible information could you want .
I hope she is found safe and well, can’t imagine what her parents are going through.
This situation has to be every parents worst nightmare no matter what age their child is. I can only imagine what they are going through. My heart breaks for them. Really hoping they will be reunited with their daughter soon
@ Kayleigh..agree completely. As the father of three daughters, this kind of situation goes beyond nightmare realm. Her parents are beyond worry at this stage..you could feel their pain coming through the screen last night. If one of my kids went missing for an hour I’d be like a headless hen running around looking for them.. but this must be excruciating for this girls parents.
Hope she’s found safe and well soon..
So some dude let her leave his flat on foot out into the darkness and danger at 4.00 am. How chivalrous! What a Class act!
you dont know the circumstances. if he has nothing to do with her disappearance then he should not be made a villain.
Rory , too soon to jump in there , it could very well be that the girl is very independent and felt that she was perfectly fine walking home on her own .
Yeah, it’s a man’s fault if a woman is walking alone. But if a man says “it’s not safe to walk alone” he’s a victim-blaming rape-apologist
The Question is did he let her leave?
Why call her by her surname. After all her parents christened her Karen.
i agree jacinta..ive contacted the journal a few times before about this…i think the use of surname very disrespectful but i got a short answer from the journal
They just aren’t on first name terms, like they were with Michaela & Melissa
http://www.thejournal.ie/michaella-melissa-prison-lima-1051597-Aug2013/
I too think it is so disrespectful Dermot. She is a young girl who has done no harm to anyone. She deserves to be called by her first name. I just hope she is safe somewhere.
Even Sky News uses first names for women unless they’re criminal or suspects. Time the Journal did likewise. Not very nice for family and friends if they’re reading this.
I hope this story turns into a good news story.
Here Here Kerry.
“Handbag believed to have belonged to Karen Buckley”, don’t think you should be speaking in the past tense until it’s clear what has happened. I hope she is found alive and well.
You’d imagine with the prevalence of CCTV throughout cities, both operated privately and by the police, that tracing her movements wouldn’t be such a difficult talk.
That said I don’t know that part of the city well.
I dont know that part of the city that well either
This is every parents worst nightmare
Cannot begin to imagine what this poor family are going through. This story does not sound like there is going to be a good outcome..
Every parent’s worst nightmare.
Why would you even post such a negative comment? I hope the young lady is found safe and well as I’m sure you do yourself but it annoys me as to why you would even bother posting something like that.
Mark I have 6 daughters and of course I would be hoping against hope that she will be found safe and well. I have been listening to news all day so unfortunately it doesn’t look like that.
That girl and her family have been in my thoughts all day. I could do without a telling off from you. So get off your high horse!!
I’m not on any high horse Mary and like I said you obviously hope she’s found safe and well but why you felt the need to point out something that people think but do not wish to state is what I was questioning. Now I’d rather not bring anymore attention to this comment than it already has so I’d like to leave it here and offer my apologies to you if I have offended you in any way as this was not my intention.
Mark I accept your apology but I was shocked that I could have made a comment that was in anyway offensive.
The man involved with Karen is a suspect. No question. The police can’t say he is as there is insufficient evidence. The police have to play it cool.
God love them, what an ordeal.
Just switched on sky news thinking it would be breaking news and to get an update and all they showed was a two minute clip of her parents appeal . I think its disgraceful !
Please God, I truly hope she is being held against her will somewhere. Stranger things happen all the time. For the sake of her poor parents let this turmoil end really soon.
i’ll never understand why they put the parents through these press conferences. how does it help to have them sit there at a time like this for the rest of us to gawk at them. I wouldn’t do it.
I can tell you as a parent. If my child was missing I would go to the end of the earth to find her. Press conference would not think twice about.
I would say its done so that if someone is holding her against her will that if that person seen the pain they were putting the family through then they just may feel a little sense of guilt and have second thoughts about harming her .
I suppose on the off chance that someone may be holding her and sees what the parents are going through and it might make them release her, however unlikely that may be.
Ah God the parents are very good at speaking so calm .
The poor family. I hope she’s found soon.
My prays are with the family please God they find her I can’t stop thinking about her ,the only girl God
Love her parents
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