Five people have appeared in court charged in connection with the investigation into the murder of Ashling Murphy.
The 23-year-old primary school teacher was murdered in Tullamore, Co Offaly on 12 January 2022.
All five people were arrested in Dublin yesterday and brought before Tullamore District Court this morning.
Marek Puska, 34, Lubomir Puska, 35, and Lucia Istokova, 34, were charged with withholding information on dates between 12 January 2022 and 27 January 2022.
Two others, Jozefina Grundzova, 33, and Viera Gaziova, 38, were charged with impeding the arrest of an alleged offender on dates between 12 and 14 January 2022.
All five, who are Slovakian, were provided with an interpreter for the court hearing.
The court imposed reporting restrictions on publishing the addresses of the five accused.
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Judge Michele Finan remanded the five accused on bail with a number of conditions, including that they all surrender their passports, they reside at the addresses provided to the court and notify gardaí of any change.
The two men and three women are due back before Tullamore District Court on 26 July when gardaí told the court the book of evidence will be served.
They were all granted legal aid.
The trial of a man accused of Ms Murphy's murder, 32-year-old Jozef Puska, is due to take place later this year.
