Ashling Murphy was killed in an apparently random attack by one man acting alone, at Cappincur on the Grand Canal just outside Tullamore, Co Offaly, last Wednesday at 4pm Gardaí arrest man in Ashling Murphy murder investigation
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Helping the ‘forgotten families’ of ill children with non-medical expenses Terry and Brendan Ring: the couple get ‘massive satisfaction’ from being able to help others after the experience of losing their daughter, Cliona

After their daughter’s death, couple founded charity to help financially support families

‘I’m struggling to connect with someone else after my girlfriend left me’ ‘I am at a loss at what to do and at the same time anxious for the future as I would love to have my own family.’ Photograph: iStock

Tell Me About It: ‘I have spoken to a therapist, but I don’t seem to be able to move on’

Fintan O’Toole: Every woman walks around with a mental Geiger counter; no man does Women live with a baseline level of threat, just below the surface of consciousness. Photograph: iStock

Places that women fear are not beyond the Pale of normality; they are all around them every day

Ashling Murphy killing: Worst outcome of this sad time would be to make men the bad guys Floral tributes and candles are left after a vigil outside the London Irish Centre in Camden in memory of Ashling Murphy: There were no vigils in New York, London and Edinburgh for Jastine Valdez. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/ PA Wire

Reason tells us that random attacks cannot be purely gender based

Ashling Murphy remembered as woman who lived her ‘short years to the full and made a difference’ Ashling Murphy’s first-class pupils from Durrow National School hold a photo of their teacher outside the Church of St Brigid, Mountbolus, Co Offaly. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos

Depraved act of violence deprived kind, loved young woman of life, bishop says at funeral

Inside the Munster abuse case: Children could not hug and woke up screaming, foster parents say The children spent their first weeks in their new home in hiding, under the stairs, under the hall table, in a hot press,

Children feel ‘safer’ since guilty verdict: ‘I’m clean, happy, never hungry and not afraid to go to sleep,’ says one

RTÉ raises its estimate of ‘lost’ licence funding to €65m Licence fee evasion and a rise in the proportion of households without a traditional television has exacerbated its funding woes, the broadcaster says. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

State broadcaster urges Government to approve an increase in its annual funding

Man in 40s charged over fatal shooting of Michael Tormey Michael Tormey shot dead outside his house in Ballyfermot

49-year-old was shot outside his home on Thomond Road in Ballyfermot on January 9th

Boris Johnson denies he lied to parliament over lockdown party Prime minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the Finchley Memorial Hospital in north London on Tuesday. Photograph: Ian Vogler/PA Wire
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British PM rejects Cummings claim that he knew Downing Street event was against rules

Family of man who died after accident at loading bay settles High Court action John Murray was seriously injured after he fell off a cargo loading bay at Dublin Airport and later died.

Deceased was injured on November 10th, 2014 at the Aer Lingus Cargo terminal in Dublin Airport

Northern parties voice opposition to double-jobbing in open letter to British PM Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill said the double-jobbing plan was to ‘shore up’ the DUP. Photograph: David Young/PA Wire

Six party leaders unite to warn plan to return to dual mandates could ‘fuel instability’

Dr Gabrial Scally to review CervicalCheck programme revisions Dr Gabrial Scally conducted his scoping inquiry more than three years ago. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

Minister for Health says six of 170 actions now remain to be completed

Drop in delivery of climate plan only partly due to Covid, committee told Several committee members pointed out that SUVs were still outselling EVs by a considerable distance. Photograph: iStock

Reductions in methane challenging and not possible until latter half of the decade, official says

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