Veronica Guerin

kraggy

actuallylike wrote: »

I was beside her car

Were you actually, like?

OldNotWIse

Yup was in my nanny's sitting room when news broke on rte

Sunnyisland

davet82 wrote: »

I'd love to see that CBS documentary on her, i wonder if it could be viewed online somewhere, anybody got any links to this??

There you go.


http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=cbs+60+minutes+veronica+guirren&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fvideo%2Fwatch%2F%3Fid%3D4758709n&ei=r71JUMfVEdSEhQfBpoHACA&usg=AFQjCNE3uGVkcQXu3yE9yUxk66eRBhoYGQ

davet82

realies wrote: »

There you go.


http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=cbs+60+minutes+veronica+guirren&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fvideo%2Fwatch%2F%3Fid%3D4758709n&ei=r71JUMfVEdSEhQfBpoHACA&usg=AFQjCNE3uGVkcQXu3yE9yUxk66eRBhoYGQ

wow that was quick, 2009 that video was from so even after 12 years had past there was still interest

thanks

Fromthetrees

The saddest part of the story is that Paul "FUKING"Williams is the main crime journalist now.
He's fuking insufferable

Condatis

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Was her finally days bravery or stupidity?

Not only stupid – but mainly self-serving. A sloppy journalist. Superficial sensationalism is not investigative journalism.

Not entirely her own fault, she was exploited cynically by publishers and a small coterie of law enforcement elements who used her pedestal for their own mean ends.

bijapos

davet82 wrote: »

i doubt it made the news outside Ireland maybe the UK at a push

I was in Germany at the time, it was the day of the Germany-England semi final but the shooting of a female journalist in Dublin still made first place on the evening news. I remember they didn't name her until later that night but it was obvious who it was. The pictires showed the car, I remeber saying it was Newlands Cross and thought of the amount of times i had hitched down the country from right opposite where it happened.

It was a big big story at the time in Germany, the first article on the news the next day as well and I remember discussions on TV programmes about it as well. It was more shocking in a way as it wasn't IRA or Northern Ireland related.

davet82

bijapos wrote: »

I was in Germany at the time, it was the day of the Germany-England semi final but the shooting of a female journalist in Dublin still made first place on the evening news. I remember they didn't name her until later that night but it was obvious who it was. The pictires showed the car, I remeber saying it was Newlands Cross and thought of the amount of times i had hitched down the country from right opposite where it happened.

It was a big big story at the time in Germany, the first article on the news the next day as well and I remember discussions on TV programmes about it as well. It was more shocking in a way as it wasn't IRA or Northern Ireland related.

i know, i know... i stand corrected! :pac:

Father Damo

davet82 wrote: »

Got a lend of it on DVD off a mate last night (i had seen it before a few years ago) and enjoyed the film. Towards the end the narrator tells us which criminals got what sentence and then disclaims 'everyone in Ireland knows where they were when the found out Veronica was shot'; sort of JFK esque...

I know a 27 year old girl who told me she has absoloutely no recollection at all of watching September 11th as it happened, or when/ where she heard the news

So do you remember? Does everyone remember? Or should i stop believing everything dvds tell me

All I remember is Dutchy Holland nearly shattering my eardrum roaring DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE! As if the shots had not been loud enough ffs.


Really though, aye I remember the day, was at my mates house and his parents were very attentive to it (obviously being the age we were it was only another shooting we thought, remember it was a hot day anyway)

admiralofthefleet

i was 15 and chasing skirt so i dont remember

davet82

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i was 15 and chasing skirt so i dont remember

me too, if it had a been a spice girl now i could have told ye down to the minute where i was and what i was doing*


*most likely fapping

davet82

Father Damo wrote: »

I know a 27 year old girl who told me she has absoloutely no recollection at all of watching September 11th as it happened, or when/ where she heard the news

your friend has alzheimers

Father Damo

davet82 wrote: »

your friend has alzheimers

She just seemed completely indifferent :pac: Shrugged it off like somebody with utterly zero interest in football might say "I cant ever recall Italia 90/Ray Houghton/ the Saipan incident". I just cant understand how anybody could completely not recall something as big as it was (she remembered it obviously, but not where she watched it unfold, off whom she heard the first word of it etc etc)

Pataman

I Do. I was in work when I heard it.
Now I feel old.