Ashling Murphy was murdered by a man on the Canal Bank in Tullamore yesterday, while out for a run at 4pm in the afternoon.

She was 23 years old.

Our community is made up of women, just like Ashling. Our community is also made up of men. This is not a women’s issue.

We are really, really angry. In our HQ team of 53 staff, 36 of them are women. Our retail team is 80% female. All of them run. None of them are running tonight.

We’ve created a list of vigils happening around the country below, in memory of Ashling if you’d like to go and pay your respects, or if you just want to be around other people processing the same anger, frustration and heartbreak as you.

If you’d like a buddy to run with, message us and we’ll do our best to find someone to run with you.

Vigils

Armagh

Friday 14th January Market Sq. 4pm.

Belfast

Friday 14th January at Belfast City Hall 4pm.

Bray

Friday 14th January Bray Town Council 4pm.

Carlow

Friday 14th January The Fountain 6pm.

Castlebar

Friday 14th January Lough Lannagh Car Park 6:30pm.

Castleblaney

Friday 14th January Hope Castle 4:30pm.

Cavan

Friday 14th January Market Square 7pm.

Clonmel

Friday 14th January Main Guard 6pm.

Cork

Saturday 15th January at Atlantic Pond 9:30am.

Friday 14th January Kanturk Place 6pm.

Derry

Friday 14th January at Guildhall Steps 4pm.

Dingle

Friday 14th January The Marina 4pm.

Dublin

Friday 14th January at Dáil Éireann 4pm.

Saturday 15th January at Dún Laoghaire People's Park Sea Front Entrance 4pm.

Saturday 15th January at St Patrick's Green, Donabate 5pm.

Drogheda

Friday 14th January The Ramparts 4:30pm.

Dundalk

Friday 14th January The Square 5pm.

Donegal

Friday 14th January Market Sq. Letterkenny 7pm.

Ennis

Friday 14th January Fair Green 4pm.

Fermanagh

Friday 14th January Fermanagh House 6pm.

Kerry

Friday 14th January Library Place, Kilorgin 5pm.

Limerick

Friday 14th January at Arthur's Quay Park 6pm.

Louth

Friday 14th January Arden Library 4pm.

Maynooth

Friday 14th Maynooth Square 4pm.

Meath

Friday 14th January The Square, Oldcastle 4pm.

Navan

Friday 14th January Blackwater Park 4pm.

Nenagh

Friday 14th Banba Sq. 4:30pm.

Portlaoise

Friday 14th January Memorial Park 4pm.

Roscommon

Friday 14th January Bawn St. Strokestown 8:30pm.

Strabane

Friday 14th January Strabane 4pm.

Thurles

Friday 14th January Town Park 6:15pm.

Tullamore

Friday 14th January at Tullamore Town Park 4pm.

Tyrone

Friday 14th January Killyclogher 4pm.

Waterford

Friday 14th January People's Park 6pm.

Westport

Friday 14th January The Mall 8pm.

Wexford

Friday 14th January The Quay 4pm.

Valentia Island

Friday 14th January Cracow Park 4:25pm.

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She was going for a run.

Ashling Murphy was murdered by a man on the Canal Bank in Tullamore yesterday, while out for a run at 4pm in the afternoon.

She was 23 years old.

Our community is made up of women, just like Ashling.

Women who tonight might not be going for that run.

Women who tonight might be getting a friend to pick them up from training.

Women who tonight, are walking home in pairs because they don’t want to walk alone.

Women who have already spent a lifetime of keys-between-fingers,
texts-when-you-get-home. Who don’t run with headphones, who change their routine, who carry pepper spray in their pocket. Women who share their location with friends and have taken self-defense classes, ‘just in case’.

Our community is also made up of men. This is not a women’s issue. It never has been.
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We are really, really angry. In our HQ team of 53 staff, 36 of them are women. Our retail team is 80% female. All of them run. None of them are running tonight.

We’ve created a list of vigils happening around the country in memory of Ashling if you’d like to go and pay your respects, or if you just want to be around other people processing the same anger, frustration and heartbreak as you.

If you’d like a buddy to run with, message us and we’ll do our best to find someone to run with you.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Murphy family today and everyone who loved and was loved by Ashling. We cannot imagine your heartache and loss.

WHEN WILL WE BE SAFE?