Large numbers showed up for the 4pm vigil - the time at which police said the fatal assault occurred in Tullamore. Traditional music was played in honour of Ms Murphy, a talented fiddle player, while some of the crowd quietly sang or hummed along.
Ten minutes was all it took for Ashling Murphy's life to ebb away. Ten minutes to rob the 23-year-old primary school teacher of her future and change the lives of her parents, siblings and boyfriend forever.
Her mother Kathleen said: 'She had so much to give to the world.' After her death on January 12, 2022, the six-year-old pupils she taught at Naomh Colmcille Primary School in nearby Durrow, County Offaly, made a shrine to her in their classroom. Ashling's class of 28 children also formed a guard of honour at her funeral, each holding a photograph of their teacher on her graduation day, along with a single red rose.
Poignantly, the stretch where Ashling was killed is named Fiona's Way after another young woman, Fiona Pender, who was 25 and pregnant with her first child when she went missing from Tullamore in 1996 and is presumed murdered. 'The judicial process cannot bring our darling Ashling back, nor can it heal our wounds, but we are relieved that this verdict delivers justice,' he said. 'It is simply imperative that this vicious monster can never harm another woman again.'
Puska, 33, is likely to receive a hefty minimum term when he is sentenced to life in jail next week. Trial judge Mr Justice Tony Hunt, who described Puska as 'evil', is unlikely to look favourably on the fact that he refused to admit what he had done. By pleading not guilty, he forced Ashling's relatives to listen to harrowing details of how she fought in vain to stay alive.'The Trial...
'When she passed I cut her, I cut her neck,' he told detectives from the Gardai. 'She panic, I panic . . . and then it happened.' So exactly how did Ashling's world come to collide so devastatingly with Puska's on that cold but sunny afternoon? As well as being an award-winning fiddle player, who played with the Irish national folk orchestra, Ashling was a talented sportswoman and represented her local club in the Irish ballsport of camogie
Unbeknown to Ashling, the father of five had spent the previous four hours touring Tullamore on his mountain bike looking for a victim. 'So I continued to walk but I felt very uncomfortable. I decided that before the path narrowed I would stop, and just look at my phone so he would have to pass me.After running away down the towpath, Ms Kelly remembered passing a 'lovely, friendly girl' she later realised was Ashling, who stopped to pet Ms Kelly's dog, Joey, when he ran up to her.
The trial also heard that on January 14, two days after Ms Murphy was found dead, Puska admitted to killing her from his hospital bed in Dublin. Pictured: Ms Murphy as a child He had left his bicycle at the scene, so lay in a ditch in a nearby field for several hours until it went dark, before going to see a friend, whom he persuaded to take him the four miles home to Mucklagh, where he lived with his wife and children.
They called the Gardai to investigate, but when officers began questioning Puska, who had visible scratches on his arms and forehead, they were immediately suspicious. Originally from Lucivna, a tiny village of fewer than 1,000 residents, in the north of Slovakia, Puska is of Romany gipsy descent. But neighbours said the couple 'had no respect' for their home, which was situated in a well-kept cul-de-sac.
'There were always people coming and going at all hours. There was noise. There were problems with rats and everything.'
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