Gardai have issued a new public appeal over Kelly Lynch who died in what her family believe are suspicious circumstances on St Patrick's Day last year.
They want to know if anyone saw her walking along the 400 yards stretch of road from a local national school to the bridge over the Ulster Canal in Monaghan town in the day or night before her body was found.
This was the last moment the 23-year-old was seen alive before she was found lying in three inches of water the next morning in the canal. Yesterday her distraught mother Julieanne said: "The closer we get to Kelly's anniversary, the harder it is.
"It is just a reminder of the days leading up to her death and us receiving the news over the phone. But if I don't pull myself back up off the floor, continue to ask the questions and be vocal about what happened to Kelly, I'm never going to find any kind of closure, or sense of peace."
Kelly, who was from Gilford, Co Armagh, had been living in Lisnaskea, Co Fermanagh, and travelled to Monaghan to stay with her boyfriend. Her family said when she was found there appeared to be black knuckle marks on her neck and her jaw was broken.
Initially gardai did not think her death was suspicious and that she banged her head and drowned in the water. But her family called for a review of the case after a meeting with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris and that review is currently ongoing. On the first anniversary of Kelly's death, gardai urged anyone with information to get in touch.
Officers are carrying out the peer review which began last October into the original investigation aimed at identifying if there are any potential additional lines. They said they are also assisting the coroner's inquest and the GSOC investigation.
Kelly's parents Julieanne and Sean were unhappy with the original Garda probe and claimed the police made a number of mistakes.
They told Commissioner Drew Harris of concerns the crime scene was not properly preserved and asked why their daughter's clothes with red marks that looked like blood were returned to them without analysis.
Mum Julieanne said she still has questions about that fateful night. She told a BBC Spotlight documentary: "There's no clarifications and there are a lot of discrepancies and I just find it strange that these answers have not been given to us."
Dad Sean added: "CCTV of the surrounding area which might have answered that question was not secured quickly enough."
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