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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.
Veronica Guerin is a 2003 biographical crime film directed by Joel Schumacher from a screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue. The film stars Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, and Amy Shiels.
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 -...
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.
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.
Oct 1, 2003 · 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 37.
May 26, 2016 · Veronica Guerin — the murder. On 26 June 1996, Guerin stopped her Opel at traffic lights on the Naas Dual Carriageway near Newlands Cross. A motorbike which had been hiding in a side road, pulled up beside her. The pillion passenger produced a hand gun and shot her six times.
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.
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.
Veronica Guerin, Ireland's leading investigative reporter, was in the middle of an ongoing crusade against the nation's crime lords when she was gunned down, gangland-style, on the afternoon of June 26, 1996, while stopped at a traffic light in the outskirts of Dublin.
