President Michael D Higgins embraced the husband of Urantsetseg Tserendorj as he attended a special Mass to mark the one year anniversary since she was fatally attacked.
The Mongolian mother-of-two, 48, was stabbed as she walked home from her work as an office cleaner in the IFSC in Dublin’s city centre on January 20 last year and she died in hospital two weeks later on February 3.
A 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named because he is a minor, has been charged with her murder and will face trial later this year.
