(Ireland) Calls for action on gender-based violence after Ashling Murphy killing
Source: The Guardian
Calls for action on gender-based violence after Ashling Murphy killing
Ireland’s minister for justice promises new strategy by March and a zero-tolerance approach
Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin
@lisaocarroll
Mon 17 Jan 2022 16.43 GMT
Campaigners have called for the end of the “scattered” approach to gender-based violence in Ireland after the murder of 23-year-old Ashling Murphy.
Irish police are still hunting for the killer of the primary school teacher, who was strangled on a canal path near the town of Tullamore while out jogging on Wednesday afternoon.
The murder has convulsed the nation with an outpouring of anger and shock in Ireland and beyond, with tens of thousands of people attending vigils in Dublin, Cork, Belfast, London and New York over the weekend.
Her funeral will take place on Tuesday. Schools around the country have been asked to observe a minute’s silence by the main teaching unions.
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