The young 23-year-old teacher, Ashling Murphy, was killed on Wednesday January 12, in the center of the country, while she was jogging. For the country’s press, this tragedy should mark a turning point in the fight against violence against women in Irish society.
“Inexplicable. Rare. Isolated. Out of nowhere.” The murder of Ashling Murphy, Wednesday January 12, plunged the Emerald Isle into a deep state of amazement. “To the point of causing the use of all these words for a few days, breath The Irish Times. Words, which would place this crime beyond the reach of our daily experiences.” However, assures the Dublin daily, the alleged feminicide of the 23-year-old teacher, in the center of the country, “is part of a well-identified pattern of violence against women”.
Before Murphy, “killed in broad daylight while jogging along a canal in County Offaly”, 244 women have been murdered in the Republic of Ireland since 1996. “Crimes committed at very different times, but with a constant : the author was each time a man, and nine times on ten a member of the entourage.”
Institutional misogyny
If the perpetrator “is still not clearly identified” (a first suspect was released and a second man currently hospitalized is now at the heart of the investigation), this drama constitutes “a turning point” for the country, according to theIrish Independent. In the same vein as the awareness raised by the feminicide of
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