The newly elected European Parliament president has paid tribute to Ashling Murphy during her acceptance speech.
Roberta Metsola became the youngest ever president of the European Parliament and the first woman to take up the role for 20 years.
The Maltese national will step into the position of David Sassoli, 65, who died last week after a serious illness.
Addressing the parliament, Ms Metsola said she is "standing on the shoulders" of women who have "endured so much".
She said: "20 years after Simone Veil, it will not be another two decades until the next woman is standing here.
"And I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.
"The shoulders of Simone Veil, Auschwitz inmate 7865, who tore off the shackles of that painful past of our European history to blaze a path through ceilings as the first woman to be European Parliament president.
"The shoulders of the millions of nameless women who endure so much and who fought for us to have the opportunities that they were never afforded."
Ms Metsola went on to mention Ashling Murphy, the 23-year-old teacher who was brutally murdered while out jogging along the canal in Tullamore, Co. Offaly on Wednesday, as she paid tribute to women who have lost their lives through violence this year.
She said she was standing on "the shoulders of Ashling, Paulina and all the other women whose lives have already been stolen this year."
"The shoulders of Europe's displaced and the disappeared on all those who fought, suffered under totalitarianism and sacrificed everything for Europe."
Paulina Dembska, 29, was killed in the early hours of January 2 at Independence Gardens in Sliema, in what police believe to be a random killing.
Both murders shocked the world as they are believed to have been random acts of violence.
Ashling was laid to rest on Tuesday as hundreds of mourners gathered outside Church St Brigid in Mount Bolous, Offaly.
Hours later, gardai arrested a suspect in the murder in a Dublin hospital where he was being treated for what were believed to be self-inflicted knife wounds.
The man is currently in custody in Tullamore Garda Station after being escorted from hospital in an unmarked garda car.
He can now be held for up to 24 hours before he will have to be either charged or released.
