Mary another victim of violent female murder

THE murder of Mary Walsh brings to five the number of women who have suffered a violent death this year in Ireland.

Her death comes just two months after the murder of a Malawian woman, whose body was found on a riverbank in neighbouring Co Kilkenny.

The body of Ms Paiche Onyemaechi, aged 25, a daughter of the chief justice of Malawi, was found wrapped in plastic bags on the banks of the river Pil near Piltown on July 23.