If you’re an Irish gangster in the 1990’s the last thing you wanted, apart from seeing the inside of a jail cell, is for

Veronica Guerin to be writing about you. Through her dogged investigating and fearless reporting, Guerin

exposed the rotten underbelly of the Irish criminal underworld - becoming the most famous journalist in the

country in the process. That level of notoriety unsurprisingly put a target on the thirty-six year old’s back, and on

June 26th 1996, whilst stopped at a red light, Veronica was shot and killed by two men on a motorbike, a

murder which sent shockwaves across Ireland.

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