Hundreds attend vigils for Ashling Murphy as tributes paid to murdered teacher | ITV News
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 Published On Jan 14, 2022

Vigils have taken place across Ireland to remember Ashling Murphy, the young teacher murdered in Tullamore Co Offaly.

Hundreds gathered outside City Hall, in the centre of Belfast, to pay tribute to the 23-year-old who was attacked while out for a run on Wednesday afternoon.

Stormont deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill was in attendance and said: "It needs to stop - the violence against women and girls needs to stop now...

"I think that the sheer fact that right across every town, village and county across this island today people are gathering in large numbers to remember Ashling Murphy shows that women have had enough."

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