Schools across the country are to observe a minutes silence at 11 o'clock this morning as the funeral service of Ashling Murphy gets underway.
The 23-year-old schoolteacher was murdered as she went for a run on the banks of the Grand Canal in Tullamore last Wednesday.
She will be laid to rest after requiem mass in Mountbolus.
Large screens have been erected at the local GAA club to cater for the huge crowd of mourners that are expected to pay their respects. While Ashling's family have invited local musicians to play their instruments at the cemetery.
The investigation into Ashling's murder is continuing.
Irish Examiner reporter Liz Dunphy says there are a number of lines of inquiry being pursued;
"There was a bottle bank removed from a recycling facility about one kilometre away from where Ms Murphy was so tragically killed, Gardaí may believe that there's something of evidential value in that."
She says a number of premises have been searched and vehicles have also been seized.
Meanwhile officers have appealed for information in relation to a man in a black tracksuit.
They describe him as wearing a black top with no hood, black tracksuit bottoms with a large white stripe or white writing on the side and black runners.
