Slovakian national Jozef Puska is set to appear at Cloverhill District Court in west Dublin in the morning.
Puska, 31, has been in custody since he appeared before a special sitting of Tullamore District Court last Wednesday night on the charge of murdering Ms Murphy, 23, in the Co Offaly town the previous week. Judge Catherine Staines was told in that first appearance that Puska, with an address at Lynally Grove, Tullamore, Co Offaly, replied "no" when he was charged in the town’s Garda station with Ms Murphy’s murder earlier that evening.Defence Solicitor Eoin Lysaght applied for free legal aid and for the services of an interpreter for all future hearings and consultations. Both requests were granted.
Puska was confronted by members of a several hundred-strong crowd that gathered outside the court for the brief hearing on Wednesday night, before he was driven away by gardai. Ms Murphy, who was a first class teacher at Durrow National School outside Tullamore and was a native of nearby Blueball, died after she was fatally assaulted while out jogging on the bank of the Grand Canal in Tullamore at around 4pm on Wednesday, January 18.