This morning.
Cappincur, Tullamore, county Offaly,
Superintendent Eamonn Curley (above), of Tullamore Garda Station, making a statement in relation to the ongoing investigation into the fatal assault of school teacher Ashling Murphy, which occurred yesterday afternoon on the Grand Canal towpath.
Murder investigation as 22-year-old woman killed in Offaly (RTE)
Meanwhile…
When I wrote this article I got a fair bit of backlash online (& even from some male pals).
It is just an unflinchingly grim reality that, as women, we think about these horrors as being very possible.
The terror that poor woman must’ve felt 💔https://t.co/W76KX2k3ey
— Anne-Marie McNally (@amomcnally) January 12, 2022
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Another woman murdered, this time in broad daylight. No amount of apps will stop this.
This.
nail. head.
Well put.
But it’s not really ‘happening randomly’ if there’s a pattern of violence against women being committed by men. It’s much easier to sit back and do a “lads nobody could have predicted or stopped this because it’s so random” but it’s only random in the specific circumstances of the case. It’s not random at all in a statistical way.
There’s more detail in the Indo’s report:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/gardai-urgently-seeking-more-witnesses-to-murder-of-teacher-ashling-murphy-22-killed-by-stranger-on-popular-tullamore-jogging-route-41234834.html
A young woman, not long out of college, a warm light in her community extinguished.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam
National Women’s Council of Ireland have announced
a vigil to be held outside the gates of Dail Eireann
tomorrow, Friday 14th of January, at 4pm,
following the senseless murder yesterday of
Ashling Murphy.
May she rest in eternal peace.
God rest her eternal soul
Just for the record, for this thread; early suspect released and cleared so the actual killer is still at large:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chief-suspect-for-murder-of-ashling-murphy-has-been-released-from-custody-and-eliminated-from-garda-inquiry-41238325.html
Thanks, Fearganinm.