The murder of primary school teacher Ashling Murphy has "united the nation in solidarity and revulsion", Ireland's prime minister has said.
Ms Murphy, 23, was found dead on Wednesday afternoon after going for a run on the banks of the Grand Canal in Tullamore, Co Offaly.
Gardai are continuing the hunt for her killer after a man who was being questioned was released from custody, deemed no longer a suspect.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin said: "It's very poignant and a very sad moment in our nation's affairs when a young talented musician had her life violently taken a few days ago.
"Our hearts and our minds go out to the Murphy family, to her community, to her family and friends, and to particularly the young pupils who no doubt would have been looking forward to Ashling's presence in the classroom teaching music or sport as well as the broader curriculum."
"I've always been of the view that a national schoolteacher, from the beginning of the state, has been the bedrock upon which our society was built.
"And, in many ways, Ashling Murphy represented and personified the very best of that tradition of national teaching.
"I think it has united the nation in solidarity and revulsion at what has happened."
Mr Martin added: "No stone will be left unturned in terms of bringing this investigation to a completion and to bring the person responsible for this to justice."
Ireland's deputy premier Leo Varadkar said society must face up to an "epidemic of violence against women".
Mr Varadkar added: "Men and boys, I think, in particular have a responsibility to start to have that conversation among ourselves about the kind of factors, the kind of attitudes, that give rise to feelings that engender men to commit acts of violence against women.
"I would hope that by shining a light on gender-based violence might help us to have this discussion in society and to improve things."
Mr Martin promised a national strategy is being developed to tackle sexual, domestic, and gender-based violence in Ireland, which will adopt a "zero-tolerance" approach.
Mourners appeared from nowhere and just kept coming
At 3.45pm, 100 people stood outside the Irish Parliament in Dublin. By 4pm, the number had grown to 1,000. They appeared from nowhere and just kept coming.
At this vigil and others across Ireland, the nation paused to remember the young woman whose life was ended by an act of violence on Wednesday.
A band of traditional musicians had just begun to play when Ireland's prime minister, Taoiseach Micheal Martin joined the silent crowd.
With the hashtag "She was just going for a jog" trending, one woman held a sign poignantly reading: "It doesn't matter what she was doing".
Some held pictures of Ashling Murphy, others lit candles in her memory and hundreds placed flowers at a makeshift shrine on the pavement.
The silence of the vast crowd, spilling into neighbouring streets, spoke louder than any words about the sense of revulsion across Ireland.
Yes, there is fear but it's being overpowered by another growing sentiment - that enough is enough and attitudes must change.
People didn't want to be here, marking the death of another woman, but came to demand it be a watershed moment in the campaign to end violence against women.
Vigils have been held across Ireland in recent days and more are planned, as people express their grief for a young woman described by her family as a "special girl" and a "little angel".
Thousands of people gathered late on Friday afternoon in Tullamore, Dublin, and in the Northern Ireland city of Belfast, as well as a number of other towns.
Ms Murphy's father Raymond told the Irish Independent newspaper: "She was a great worker, with great drive. A marvellous musician.
"She crammed so much into her short life."
Man released after questioning
On Thursday police released a man they had been questioning, saying he is no longer a suspect.
But the man has had his "life ruined", according to his solicitor Donal Farrelly, who represented him during two days of being questioned.
Mr Farrelly criticised those who had tried to identify the man on social media.
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