"Ashling represents the best of everything Ireland is. She represents beauty and kindness, compassion, and talent, love and innocence. This will forever be her legacy.
Ireland is a better place because she was here.
I ask the Puska family sitting here today: what is your legacy? What have you done for Ireland but damage it beyond repair.
You all came to our great country in search of a better life, but built that life on a strong foundation of taking, never giving.
A family who benefited greatly from everything our nation offers to those in need while contributing absolutely nothing in return.
A family who knew, without question, that one of their own had gone out into the streets of Tullamore and murdered our beautiful girl in the most horrific way imaginable.
And instead of doing what was right, instead of doing the honourable thing by coming forward and telling Gardai what you knew, you did everything possible to conceal what you knew and to destroy vital evidence in the hopes that my family would be left without justice and closure for the rest of our lives, while your husband and brother would be left free to roam the streets of Ireland to possibly do this all over again to another innocent family."
- Victim Impact Statement of Ray Murphy, father of Ashling Murphy