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Veronica Guerin: A Legacy

  • 10-05-2016 7:32am
    #1
    lukin
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    Thought there would be a thread on this,maybe the average age profile of boardsies means they were very young when she was killed. I remember it well myself, last night's show brought back a lot of sad memories. I know people get killed in tragic circumstances every day but Veronica's death was so shocking because she was probably the best known journalist in the country at the time.


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  • #2
    fepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,434 ✭✭✭fepper


    She certainly had great ambitions in everything she did be it sports,political and journalist,she packed a lot into her life


  • #3
    NIMAN
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    Good programme, such a sad story.
    She definitely was a strong woman, standing up to scum wasn't an easy thing to do.

    On a sidenote, was the State tougher on gangland in those days than they are now? It appears that way.


  • #4
    fepper
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    I'd say gangland are the ones getting tougher!!


  • #5
    lukin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,114 ✭✭✭lukin


    NIMAN wrote: »
    On a sidenote, was the State tougher on gangland in those days than they are now? It appears that way.

    Graham Turley said at the end of the programme that we are back at square one in that regard. Immediately after Veronica's murder there was a crackdown but after a while it's just gone back to the way it was before.


  • #6
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Gilligans gang would be considered small time compared to what's happening today


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  • #7
    neris
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    Cab was a great set up at the time as the world wasnt so pc that people didnt really care about the "human rights" of gilligan or his cronies. Now a days these scum claim every human right to keep their possesions and keel themselves out of prison. The scum have gotten tougher n the laws gotten weaker.


  • #8
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,740 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    lukin wrote: »
    Graham Turley said at the end of the programme that we are back at square one in that regard. Immediately after Veronica's murder there was a crackdown but after a while it's just gone back to the way it was before.

    There was an anecdote about when the big crime boss Dunne was being put away back in the day he said "if you think I'm bad just wait for the guys coming behind me"

    The gangs have got worse and it needs radical legislation, just like the CAB was in its day, to reign them in.


  • #9
    Radio5
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    Old enough to remember her murder but I'd forgotten the other exclusives she had like that Bishop Casey interview.

    PJ Mara is up in this series next week. I hope there's a bit of balance in it and it's not a whitewash of 'what a gas man he was' programme.


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