Posted on 06/26/2006 10:36:03 PM PDT by Cindy
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Family and friends of Veronica Guerin, the investigative reporter whose slaying shocked Ireland and triggered a government crackdown on organized crime, laid flowers and prayed Monday near the spot where she was shot to death a decade ago.
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ON THE NET...
Veronica Guerin was murdered June 26, 1996.
http://www.truthusa.com/NewsInternetGuerin.html
Ignore post no. 2.
Wrong date.
10th anniversary of journalist Veronica Guerin's murder ping.
That was a great movie. Accurate, I hope.
I never got around to seeing it, according to her Sunday Independent colleagues, Cate Blanchett WAS Veronica Guerin!
Gutsy woman. I remember.
And I believe somehow she knew she would become a martyr.
That is possible, I know she wouldn't listen to Garda warnings about her safety.
Yep.
THANKS for the ping.
Welcome.. even though you posted the thread...
;)
ON THE NET...
http://www.truthusa.com/NewsInternetGuerin.html
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UPDATE...
http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/images/people/brianmeehanGuerin.jpg
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=187202254&p=y87zxz96x&n=187203014
"Meehan starts Guerin murder conviction appeal"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Brian Meehan began his appeal today against his conviction for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin - one day after the tenth anniversary of the gunning down of the crime reporter on the Naas Road in 1996.
Meehan (aged 41), a native of Crumlin in Dublin is the only person serving a sentence for Ms Guerin's murder on June 26, 1996. He was jailed for life by the Special Criminal Court in July 1999 and also given concurrent jail sentences of 20, 12 and 5 years for drugs and firearms offences.
The court found that Meehan was the driver of the motorbike from which a gunman fired six shots into Ms Guerin's body as she sat in her car stopped at traffic lights on the Naas Road.
Meehan was in court today for the opening of his appeal and spoke briefly to his father Kevin Meehan who was also in court. Retired Detective Superintendent Todd O' Loughlin, who was one of the senior garda officers in charge of the Lucan investigation team, was also in court for the hearing."
I seen that - "The Monk" is trying to get out!
Well, I wonder what he will have to say about his passenger.
Indeed!
I'm inclined to believe it. I recently watched The Aviator again, and Blanchett absolutely was Katharine Hepburn, bringing warmth and subtlety to a role that could easily have slipped into caricature.
If Blanchett could pull that off, playing someone so familiar to so many people, I have no doubt that she could inhabit the role of Veronica Guerin, or for that matter, anyone. Hell, if she decided to play me, I wouldn't give odds that my dad would hear the difference on the phone.
She's good alright!
She was also magnificent as Elizabeth I.
Absolutely. But no one who actually met Elizabeth I was around to vouch for the authenticity of her performance.
UPDATE...
http://www.emigrant.ie/article.asp?iCategoryID=9&iArticleID=57066
Sunday, July 2
"Murdered journalist remembered"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "By a strange piece of scheduling Brian Meehan's appeal against his conviction for the murder of Ms Guerin opened in the Court of Criminal Appeal on Tuesday. During his trial one of his associates, who had been monitoring the journalist's movements on the day of her murder, gave evidence of phoning Meehan to keep him informed of her whereabouts. Telephone records confirmed that the calls were made as claimed by Russell Warren. In the appeal Patrick Gageby SC, for Meehan, claimed that, while the calls may well have been made, their content was not known and they did not place his client at the scene of the murder. Judgement was reserved."
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