Picture of the Candle Vigil for Ashling Murphy tonight in Eyre Square, Galway

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  1. What’s “enough is enough” all about?

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    Hopefully about light sentences and people wandering around with a hundred convictions under their belt, but I reckon it’s something different?

  2. Very sad. I seen the principal of the school she worked at on the news today and I’ve never really been one to be emotional over tragedies that pass through the news cycle, but he was very passionate about it and it caught me off guard. When you see the headline indicating a 23 year old teacher had been killed, that’s one thing, but it makes it very real to hear that she was a teacher of first class students and they had to be taught that it was “okay to be sad”. I do wonder if there is anything that could be done in terms of preventative measures here, because this is just heartbreakingly horrific.

  3. I swear the lads on this sub are really showing their colours around this. I know it’s a predominately male sub but didn’t realise this many men could be so unsympathetic and self-involved at a time like this. Your mothers would be ashamed lads.

  4. The poor woman and her friends and family. What a horrifying end to a gentle life. It’s unbelievably sad and shocking. RIP

  5. This is so heart breaking. Women should be able to go for a run without fear they could be attacked. I hope the asshole responsible rots in jail. Lock him up and throw away the key.

  6. This is so sad and senseless. The goverment has to get tough on crime. Every week we see people in court with 150, 200 previous convictions. It’s a joke. This girls family will never be happy again this will always haunt them. It really is very sad

  7. Seriously we need to reform the criminal justice system, these people should not be on the streets if they pose a risk. That poor woman paid for the systems failure with her life.

    My sympathies to the family and friends.

  8. This is so wrong on so many levels. Just doing her daily routine and taken. I feel for her family

  9. Am in the only one who thinks its odd the gardai are claiming it was a random attack already? How could they possibly know that? People are generally murdered by someone they know or have at least encointered before, not strangers on the street. At a guess, they assumed that guy they arrested, who I imagine has no relation to the victim, was responsible but then realised their error. But not before releasing a statement?

    Like I’m seriously scratching my head as to how they could come to the conclusion the attack was spontaneous. What in the crime scene could ever definitively confirm that?

  10. I feel this woman’s death should make the government seriously rethink their self defense laws especially when it comes to the legalization of pepper spray and tasers(with licenses of course).

  11. I know (as a female) it’s not completely safe to be alone in public. This in itself is not good.

    However I am getting the feeling this may be the beginning of more of these kind of incidences.

    People with mental health issues, who have violent tenancies, even if they did ask for help from professionals have been ignored and cast aside by our mess of a health system for many years.

    If you were to present yourself to a professional having a mental health crisis you are fobbed off with an urgent appointment for months later. It’s not good enough.

    I fear there is are more attacks like this coming, I fear for our women, our vulnerable, our children and our men.

    May she RIP.

  12. How did An Garda Siochana get on finding the cunt who fired the rocket at that poor girl’s eye ? ? ?

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