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Brother of Veronica Guerin takes defamation action against Gemma O'Doherty
Court papers for the proceedings were filed on Monday.
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Court papers for the proceedings were filed on Monday.
Veronica Guerin’s brother addressed claims by the Áras hopeful at Fingal council today.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, O’Doherty said she believed the State was involved in the killing.
The celebrated crime reporter was shot dead on the outskirts of Dublin twenty years ago today.
Graham Turley says the British MP was “just doing her normal day’s work as Veronica was”.
There are questions now about the effectiveness of measures introduced after the journalist was killed 20 years ago.
Cathal Turley says living with hatred wouldn’t be true to her memory.
Brian Meehan, who is serving a life sentence, was accused of an ‘abuse of process’.
The convicted killer of the journalist is seeking for his conviction to be quashed.
On 26 June 26 1996, Veronica Guerin was shot in her car at traffic lights on the Naas Road.
He is claiming a miscarriage of justice.
Sinn Féin Councillor Jonathan Graham said last week that the process should take place before naming the structure.
A Sinn Féin councillor asked that the naming be open to public consultation.
The 61-year-old gangster is expected to recover, after being shot four times in Clondalkin on Saturday night.
Bernie Guerin had campaigned for assets seized in the wake of her daughter’s murder to be put into communities destroyed by drugs.
The convicted drug trafficker, who led the gang that killed the Sunday Independent journalist, was freed from prison earlier today.
The 61-year-old was released this morning after serving 12 years in the midlands prison.
The veteran criminal, who led the gang that murdered Veronica Guerin, made a phone call as he was driven from the facility in a waiting car.
The drug boss is due to be released from Portlaoise Prison later this morning, after serving 12 years for drug trafficking offences.
The Supreme Court has rejected a bid by the criminal challenging consecutive sentences he was given for mobile phone use.
The criminal’s solicitor has released a statement to media outlets asking that they not pursue him for comments when he is released from prison next week.
The 37-year-old was one of the first journalists in Ireland to take on the “big guys” of organised crime.
It’s believed that 36 journalists have been killed there since 2011.
The Jessbrook Equestrian Centre in Kildare owned by former gang leader John Gilligan is to be sold – 16 years after it was first seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau.
The National Union of Journalists and Amnesty International Ireland joined together today to remember journalists who have been killed during the course of their work.
The crime journalist was murdered in her car 15 years ago today but her work remains relevant to this day.
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