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Veronica Guerin

  • 05-09-2012 03:32PM
    #1
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭


    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...

    Well i dont, no disrepect to the woman (RIP) but i havent a clue were i was, i remember it being in the papers for ages but being a teen at the time i didnt take much notice of anything i guess...

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


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  • #2
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    I don't remember but that's because I was quite young at the time.


  • #3
    SunnyDub1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    stop believing everything dvds tells you !


  • #4
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Meh. That is all.


  • #5
    actuallylike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭actuallylike


    I was beside her car ;)


  • #6
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Had never heard of her until she was killed tbh and then the Indo carried it as front page for about a year....


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  • #7
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    SunnyDub1 wrote: »
    stop believing everything dvds tells you !

    but dvds have been like a father to me :(


  • #8
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    actuallylike wrote: »
    I was beside her car ;)

    :(


  • #9
    Biggins
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    davet82 wrote: »
    but dvds have been like a father to me :(

    Think of them as more like the Holy father!


  • #10
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    I think I pissed my pants in school that day. :o


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    davet82 wrote: »
    but dvds have been like a father to me :(

    Well Blu Ray must be your sexy uncle then.:pac:

    I was coming home from school IIRC, and seen it on the news when i got home.


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  • #12
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Biggins wrote: »
    Think of them as more like the Holy father!

    there both full of shít and cost you money? ;)


  • #13
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    I think I pissed my pants in school that day. :o

    Thats a fine way for a teacher to behave! :p


  • #14
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Biggins wrote: »
    Thats a fine way for a teacher to behave! :p

    Nice one Biggy Smalls :D


  • #15
    racso1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭racso1975


    On the way home from work was driving was 20 at the time. remember thinking i had not got a clue who she was.


  • #16
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I remember where I was when I heard about JFK! :D

    Yeah, I remember where I was when I heard about VG.


  • #17
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    I was watching the news with my mam, who grew up a few doors down from Veronica Guerin.Still remember her shock and turning up the volume/shushing everyone in the room.


  • #18
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I remember where I was when I heard about JFK! :D

    Yeah, I remember where I was when I heard about VG.

    go on share both stories unless you were on the bog for both them, then i dont want to know ;)


  • #19
    Guill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    I remember reading the papers and thinking who the fudge is she?


  • #20
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    If i remember correctly that day France were playing croatia in the european cup ? And I was going to the pub to watch it,Then heard on the radio a woman was shot dead didn't find out till later it was Veronica guerin, Couldn't believe that it happened,A reporter being shot dead, unbelievable at that time.


  • #21
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I was in the study with Miss Scarlett and a candlestick.


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  • #22
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    I think I was in a B&B in the Isle of Man watching a European Championship game.


  • #23
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    IIRC I was covered in honey and had just rolled around in a bath full of chocolate sprinkles.


  • #24
    Real Life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭Real Life


    The whole movie is a load of sensationalist bollocks as far as I'm concerned


  • #25
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Spoilers ffs!!


  • #26
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Can someone give me a clue as to what year it was, 97? 98?


  • #27
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    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...

    Well i dont, no disrepect to the woman (RIP) but i havent a clue were i was, i remember it being in the papers for ages but being a teen at the time i didnt take much notice of anything i guess...

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

    I remember where I was when I found out about 9/11, Ray Houghton scoring against Italy in '94 and Princess Diana's death. Nothing else really.


  • #28
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    im invisible wrote: »
    Can someone give me a clue as to what year it was, 97? 98?

    june 96 - the summer of love ;)


  • #29
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Real Life wrote: »
    The whole movie is a load of sensationalist bollocks as far as I'm concerned

    so you liked the movie too then? :)


  • #30
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    The Veronica Guerin Movie incorrectly depicted a Yamaha FZS Fazer Mk1 as the hit bike used by her killers. This bike did not appear on the market until 1998 two years after the incident. The Honda CBR 900RR Fireblade was the actual model bike used in the killing.


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  • #31
    the_djoker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 110 ✭✭the_djoker


    I can't remember, I was 18 at the time and didn't know of her, I guess this is why - I remember the media spark of course, but not the moment i found out,
    I do remember where I was when I found out Diana died, im sure most people on this forum do too - bar the ones that were too young/not born..


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