Schools asked to observe minute's silence to remember Ashling Murphy ahead of funeral

Floral tributes and candles are left after a vigil outside the London Irish Centre in Camden in memory of Ashling Murphy. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Schools across the country will observe a moment’s silence tomorrow morning as the family of Ashling Murphy prepare to lay her to rest.

The teachers' unions have come together this morning to ask that all schools and colleges acknowledge the death of the young teacher with a minute’s silence at 11am – the time of the funeral Mass in St Brigid’s Church in Mountbolus, Co Offaly.