David RaleighJoseph Puska’s life sentence for the broad daylight attack and murder of Limerick student Ashling Murphy, reignited debate about women feeling unsafe in the world. Puska’s sentence reopened conversations from when Ms Murphy was killed last year, about how many women perceive men in general to be a threat to their safety, particularly women who are out, alone, jogging, as Ashling Murphy was when Puska’s took her life. There is no silver bullet answer, she said, but changing a “culture of violence against women”, should be more of a focus for early educators. “As a runner I have been catcalled, whistled at, yelled at, laughed at, pointed at. Ms Murphy’s murder made “women stop and think ‘will I go for that walk or run?’, and that was one of the reasons I did go for a run when I found out it was Ashling,” Dr Kenny said.

Source: The Herald November 18, 2023 17:24 UTC