Paddy Buckley, Ray Murphy, Amy Murphy and James Hogan principal of the school where Ashling was a teacher at the Memorial walk yesterday Sunday 12th January. Photos: Ger Rogers
Commemorative walk marks third anniversary of death of Ashling Murphy
Members of the Kilcormac/Killoughey Camogie club Ashling was a member of attending the Walk on the third anniversary of her death.
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Ger Rogers
A section of the large attendance at the anniversary walk for Ashling Murphy.
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Musicians, family members and well wishers gathered at Ashling's memorial on the Grand Canal.
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Ashling Murphy’s sister Amy, mother Kathleen, and father Ray, lead on section of the walk along the Grand Canal from Digby’s Bridge to meet up with the other walkers who left from Fiona’s Way, Tullamore.
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The Tullamore section of the walk waited at the memorial for Ashling, where they met by the family and walkers from the Digby Bridge side for the memorial walk on Sunday, January 12.
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Ashling's uncle Des Murphy leading a decade of the Rosary.
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The large crowd overflowed the site of Ashling's memorial where walkers gathered for prayers and music on the third anniversary of Aisling's death.
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Ray Murphy plays along with a large gathering of musicians at the site of Ashling's memorial on the Grand Canal. Ger Rogers Photo
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Ger Rogers
Paddy Buckley, Ray Murphy, Amy Murphy and James Hogan principal of the school where Ashling was a teacher at the Memorial walk yesterday Sunday 12th January. Ger Rogers Photo
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Ger Rogers
Ashling Murphy
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Large numbers gathered on Sunday afternoon in Tullamore for a commemorative walk to mark the third anniversary of the death of Offaly schoolteacher Ashling Murphy.
Ashling was a 23-year-old primary school teacher in Durrow NS when she was murdered while jogging along the Grand Canal in Tullamore, in an incident that shocked and appalled the nation, on January 12, 2022.
The Ashling Murphy Memorial Fund had invited people to join them in remembering and celebrating Ashling’s life at her third anniversary Mass on Sunday morning in St Brigid’s Church, Mountbolus. It added that the commemorative walk was that afternoon, to Ashling’s memorial shrine on the Grand Canal. Participants met at Digby Bridge car park, Capincurr, .
The Ashling Murphy Memorial Fund was launched on January 6, 2023. Its aim is to support "the development of the traditional Irish Arts, culture and heritage for young people by providing an environment to continue and enhance the culture in which Ashling grew up and was very much part of".
In November 2023, a jury unanimously convicted Jozef Puška of Ashling Murphy’s murder, and he was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment.
