She was going for a run.....

RIP Ashling Murphy

She was going for a run.......

A 23 year old school teacher murdered while out running along the canal in Tullamore.

She was going for a run about 3pm after school last Wednesday and was murdered about 4pm just as it was starting to get dark,

Ireland mourns for a daughter

Ashling was a talented musician from a well known musical family.

Tonight on the news, there was footage of vigils taking place all over Ireland. At one of the vigils, Aisling's band members played music in her memory. 

Playing a beautiful mournful sad song, the music got to me. 

And what really got to me was when the camera zoomed in on the face of the girl playing the button accordion and it showed a large solitary tear running down her masked face. Playing music, and crying with sadness as she remembered and mourned her friend. A friend who was loved, respected and was the best of Ireland.

And although I am incredibly sad I am so very angry that a woman in Ireland can't go for a run after finishing a day of teaching her 7 year old pupils in first class. The injustice of it. How wrong for Ashling to be taken from her family and friends like this. How wrong for her 7 year olds to lose their teacher like this. 

A woman taken in her prime and we unite in anger and grief in Ireland. She was going for a run and she never came home.

Wrong Wrong Wrong. 

RIP Ashling