John McAreavey, whose wife Michaela Harte was murdered on
the couple’s honeymoon in 2011, has remarried and thanked God for
getting his life back on track.
Five years after the trauma and heartbreak of losing
Michaela on the island of Mauritius, John has married Tara Brennan, with
whom he worked at the Michaela Foundation, the charity established in
his late wife’s honour to inculcate core values, including faith, in
young people.
John has previously spoken publicly of how his faith
sustained him during the “dark” years after Michaela’s untimely death,
which countered the temptation to give in to despair.
“When I had those temptations to feel like that and to
want to wallow in self-pity, to be left with the temptation there is no
hope left, there was always something there that came to me to sustain
me in those dark times and, I suppose, sustain my determination that I
would get through this suffering,” he said.
When he announced his engagement to Tara last year, John
said: “My fiancée Tara has shown me the beauty of life again, all the
good things about life and what I have learned is that I am able to deal
with anything that life puts in front of me because I know that I will
always have God at my side.”