Ellen Coyne: How far-right extremists tried to turn Ashling Murphy’s murder into a debate about immigration

Ellen Coyne: How far-right extremists tried to turn Ashling Murphy’s murder into a debate about immigration

When Ashling Murphy was murdered, the vast majority of men and women in this country were left absolutely reeling. Most of us staggered through the shock of the desperate tragedy that the Murphy family and the town of Tullamore was enduring, unsure of how to find anything good or useful to say or do.