Hundreds of people gathered in London on Saturday for a vigil to remember Ashling Murphy, a primary school teacher murdered while she was on an afternoon run in Ireland last week, and call for an end to violence against women.She wasn't even killed here!
“We are here to support her family, and because we could all be in the same situation,” said Caitlin O’Shea, 31, who had joined the vigil with many of her friends.
The crowd gathered outside the Irish Centre in Camden, at 4pm, the time Murphy was attacked days before, to hear music and observe a minute’s silence. Organisers said they had only expected a handful of people, but hundreds blocked the street and spilled across a nearby junction.
Newham a bit too far for you all to go, love? Or is Camden just a place you can get some shopping done at the same time, maybe?
“We have come together in solidarity with women of Ireland and women of the world who are angry, distressed and heartbroken,” Anna Johnston, one of the vigil organisers, told the crowd.
But not, I note, women a bit closer to home.
I'm sure she was killed as a result of the wicked English people who caused the 1842 famine in Ireland because the Paddies potatoes rotted in the fields.
ReplyDeleteLast time I was in Dublin, I observed Paddies munching their way through polenta in an Italian restaurant, and eating corn on the cob from (at least) KFC. They feckin' well wouldn't eat the maize they were given, at a cost of £100k in the money back then. Oh no, siree! It was the fault of absentee landlords, allegedly English, but often Oirish living in LOndon, as then as now, it's a nicer place than Ireland.
Anyway, the abandoned villages speak of something, and the lack of gravestones say something else. Most of the food wasn't being grown because the menfolk had buggered off on a gold rush, or to dig for railways.
Anyway, the English are so horrible that half the Irish want to live here rather than there.
For once I agree with the mums.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4234348-murder-of-julia-james-where-are-the-vigils
For the sistas to get really outraged, the victim has to be younger than the murderer, who has to be a native.
I see the Romanian gypsy who's helping police with their inquiries into the Irish girl's murder was out on bail at the time. Don't suppose the vigil had anything to say about open borders and lenient judges though.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, don't get me started on the English genocide of the Irish bollocks. They are peddling this for all it's worth. Historical revisionism of the worst kind.
ReplyDelete"Anyway, the English are so horrible that half the Irish want to live here rather than there."
ReplyDeleteGood point! Ain't it always the way, though?
"For the sistas to get really outraged, the victim has to be younger than the murderer, who has to be a native."
They are going to be disappointed on this opne then, if the gardai have the right man this time...
"Don't suppose the vigil had anything to say about open borders and lenient judges though."
Nope. And raising it on Twitter brings the usual suspects to your timelike like flies to [redacted]...
"They are peddling this for all it's worth. Historical revisionism of the worst kind."
History as we knew it is dead.