The heartbroken husband of Indian woman Savita Halappanavar can’t bear to return to their family home in Galway.

Two weeks ago,  11,800 miles away from Drogheda, County Louth, Jill Meagher was kidnapped and murdered in Melbourne, on her way home from a night out with colleagues. Yesterday Ireland shared in Australia’s grief as thousands walked in silent procession and paid their respects at a memorial mass.

Meghan O’Rourke’s accomplishments are many. A graduate of Yale, she was a fiction/nonfiction editor at The New Yorker at the age of 24, one of the youngest editors in the history of the magazine. She then became culture editor and literary critic for Slate, a poetry editor of The Paris Review from 2005-2010, and published a collection of poems, Halflife, in 2007, to critical acclaim and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The Long Goodbye, her first book of prose, was published on April 14th.

Lorraine Ela is among the growing group of family members who have reached out to each other as they mourn the missing murder victims found on a remote beach in Suffolk County, Long Island.

Dublin singer and Oscar winner Glen Hansard is offering to pay for grief counseling for fans who witnessed a man jump to his death at his concert in California recently.

Joely Richardson, the actress and sister of Natasha Richardson, spoke this week of her immense grief over the death of her sister during a Canadian skiing accident.

Irish actor Liam Neeson has decided not to attend this year’s Toronto International Film Festival for the world premiere of his new film “Chloe.”