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Veronica Guerin Turley (5 July 1958 – 26 June 1996) was an Irish investigative journalist focusing on organised crime in the Republic of Ireland, who was murdered in a contract killing believed to have been ordered by a South Dublin-based drug cartel.
Oct 17, 2003 · Veronica Guerin: Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker. An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
Jun 26, 2021 · Minister for justice Nora Owen following the removal for murdered journalist Veronica Guerin on June 29th, 1996. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times. Conor Gallagher. Sat Jun 26 2021 -...
Veronica Guerin is a 2003 biographical crime film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role. The screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue focuses on Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996, at the age of 36.
Oct 1, 2003 · The murder of one of Ireland’s most prominent journalists by crime bosses provoked outrage but has not received justice. Although she is virtually unknown to Americans, Irish crime journalist Veronica Guerin was a legend in Ireland.
Oct 10, 1998 · Journalist Veronica Guerin died from multiple bullet wounds after she was shot six times as she sat in her car on the Naas Road, the Special Criminal Court heard yesterday.
Veronica Guerin, the prominent Irish investigative reporter who was shot to death in her car on June 26, was a relative newcomer to journalism who took her trade by storm.
Apr 12, 2022 · Veronica Guerin (1958 –1996) was an award-winning journalist for the Sunday Independent. In 1995, she received the Press Freedom Award for pursuing Dublin mobsters even when her life was in danger. One year later, she was shot dead in her car as she waited at a traffic light.
Guerin, Veronica (1958–96), journalist, was born 5 July 1958 (not, as often given, 1959) in Dublin, one of five children of Christopher Guerin, accountant, and his wife, Bernadette. She was educated by the Holy Faith nuns at Killester and in 1988 earned a diploma in marketing management from the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Jun 26, 2018 · In June 1996, the campaigning Irish journalist Veronica Guerin was murdered by a hit squad as she waited in her car at a set of traffic lights.
