Veronica Guerin is a feisty crime reporter for the Sunday Independent. Set in Ireland in the mid 1990's about a newspaper reporter that became involved in the drug war. Traynor had fled to Portugal after Guerin's murder, and having been on the run from British authorities since 1992, resided mainly in Spain and the Netherlands from 1996 onwards. Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners. When she becomes aware of how much Dublin's illegal drug trade is encroaching upon the lives of its working class citizens, especially the children, she becomes determined to expose the men responsible for its spread. I was used to think he was just a typical Hollywood movie maker. Was this review helpful to you? He was arrested 12 months later in the United Kingdom trying to board a flight for Amsterdam, after a routine search of his baggage revealed $500,000 in cash. After studying accountancy she ran a public-relations firm for seven years, before working for Fianna Fáil and as an election agent for Seán Haughey. She became a reporter in 1990, writing for the Sunday Business Post and Sunday Tribune. An ultraconservative security guard suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons, with the drag queen next door. Synopsis.

How the events changed what she wrote about, fulfilled her desire to make a difference, affected her family & her country.

Born in Dublin, she was an athlete in school, and later played on the Irish national teams for both football and basketball. 3 wins & 13 nominations. In 1994 she began writing about crime for the Sunday I… Agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother (Chris Rock). Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. After a failed extradition from the Netherlands in 1997, which brought Meehan back to Ireland, in 2010 Traynor was arrested after a joint A memorial statue to Guerin is located in Dubh Linn Gardens, in the grounds of 38 of 53 people found this review helpful. An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers. Veronica Guerin (5 July 1959 – 26 June 1996) was an Irish crime reporter who was murdered by drug lords. As they're held for ransom, a husband and wife's predicament grows more dire amid the discovery of betrayal and deception. A nurse falls in love with a terminally ill man. Was she surprised when her campaign ended with her own murder?

A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family. Disturbed by the sight of gangs selling drugs to children and teenagers in the Dublin of the 1990s, she began a high-profile, even reckless campaign to expose them. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Claiming it was the proceeds of gambling, he was charged with Pursued by CAB, in January 2008, Gilligan made a court appearance in an attempt to stop the Irish State from selling off his assets.

Veronica Guerin may or may not have been a great journalist, but she was certainly a brave and foolish one. Despite the presiding judge's attempt to silence Gilligan, he continued to blame a botched Gardaí investigation and planted evidence as the reason for his current imprisonment. Veronica Guerin est un film réalisé par Joel Schumacher avec Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds. Another But later that year she was gunned down by assasins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed.Rated R for violence, language and some drug content A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971. She must have been, or she would have gone about it differently. When an Ivy League-educated C.I.A. A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime. A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not.