Calls for action on gender-based violence after Ashling Murphy killing

Tributes at the Grand Canal in Tullamore, County Offaly, where primary school teacher Ashling Murphy was found dead on Wednesday afternoon. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Campaigners have called for the end of the “scattered” approach to gender-based violence in Ireland after the murder of 23-year-old Ashling Murphy.

Irish police are still hunting for the killer of the primary school teacher, who was strangled on a canal path near the town of Tullamore while out jogging on Wednesday afternoon.