Gardai name 17-year-old girl murdered in Dublin

Gardai have named the woman who was killed in south Dublin yesterday.

She has been identified as 17-year-old Niamh Murphy from Salthill in Galway.

Gardai say that her throat has been slit and its thought that she had been dead for at least a day before her body was found in Ballsbridge yesterday.

A post mortem examination is to be carried out by the State Pathologist’s Office to determine the exact cause of death.