It was a monstrous crime that shocked the nation and left people with broken hearts and outrage. Friday marks the second anniversary of the shocking murder of primary school teacher Ashling Murphy. And her name remains fresh in everyone’s minds as her loved ones have managed to keep shining light on who she was.
READ MORE:Wife and two brothers of Ashling Murphy's killer Jozef Puska appear in court charged with withholding information Ashling has become a powerful symbol of the senseless destruction and extreme horror of femicide. At just 23 years of age, talented trad musician Ashling was attacked and killed by evil Josef Puska in broad daylight on January 12, 2022 just after 3.15pm while she was out jogging along a busy canal in Tullamore. That stretch of canal where she died is called Fiona’s Way after Fiona Pender, a 25-year-old Tullamore woman who disappeared while seven months pregnant in 1996. Ashling’s afternoon run ended in horror and her senseless murder sent shockwaves across the country and made international headline