Veronica Guerin (July 5, 1958 - June 26, 1996) was an Irish journalist working for the Sunday Independent who was murdered in 1996 by Irish drug dealers. Guerin had started writing about Irish criminals and drug dealers from 1994, using pseudonyms to hide the real identities, but the majority of people in Ireland knew who she was referring to. She received several death threats while writing for the newspapers and was actually attacked in her home in 1995. Both Independent Newspapers and the Garda