Sheila Reilly: Is this when we stop tolerating abuse of women?

Ashling Murphy should be standing in front of a classroom of seven-year-olds this morning. Instead, her family are preparing for a funeral.

A woman carries flowers to lay with other floral tributes left near to the Grand Canal in Tullamore, County Offaly, where Aisling Murphy was murdered on Wednesday evening. 

Why do men murder women? Because they can.

It is uncomfortable to see it in black and white. We can tell ourselves it’s “not all men”, which is true, but the fact is the vast majority of
female murder victims are murdered by men.