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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 · Sat Jun 26 2021 - 02:00. Nora Owen remembers exactly what she was doing when she heard Veronica Guerin had been murdered. The former minister for justice had just returned to a New York hotel...
Oct 17, 2003 · A film based on the true story of Veronica Guerin, a reporter who exposed Dublin's drug lords and was killed by them in 1996. Starring Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brenda Fricker, directed by Joel Schumacher.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Joel Schumacher
- 2003-10-17
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.
Jun 26, 2018 · Listen to the podcast of Witness History, a series that tells stories of historical events as told by the people who were there. In this episode, the Irish journalist murdered for her work exposing drug barons in the 1990s.
