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Based on the true story of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for The Sunday Independent who exposed some of Dublins most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996; later that year she was gunned down by assassins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed.
All Irish know where they were on 26 June 1996 when they learned that crusading journalist Veronica Guerin had been gunned down on Dublins Naas Road. The film starts with her assassination and looks back at what brought it on. For more than 18 months, shed been digging into and writing about Dublins drug trade, starting with the youths who were hooked and working up to the big dealers. As she gets close to the biggest crook, John Gilligan, shes given a warning shot, a gunshot wound, a beating, and a threat against her young son. Her husband and mother try to dissuade her, as does a key informant, double-dealing John Traynor. What drives her on? Idealism? The chase? Fame?
Cate Blanchett
Veronica Guerin
Colin Farrell
Tattooed Boy
Brenda Fricker
Bernie Guerin
Ciarán Hinds
John Traynor
Gerard McSorley
John Gilligan
Don Wycherley
Chris Mulligan
Barry Barnes
Graham Turley
Simon O'Driscoll
Cathal Turley
Emmet Bergin
Aengus Fanning
Charlotte Bradley
Anne Harris
Mark Lambert
Willie Kealy
Garrett Keogh
Tony Gregory
Maria McDermottroe
Geraldine Gilligan
Paudge Behan
Brian Meehan
Joe Hanley
Eugene 'Dutchie' Holland
David Murray
Charles Bowden
Karl Shiels
Gilligan Gang Member #1
Barry McEvoy
Gilligan Gang Member #2
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