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

Ireland’s minister for justice promises new strategy by March and a zero-tolerance approach

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.