Veronica Guerin shooting 20 years on - the crime that brought down the criminals

The Garda crackdown that followed the death of crusading journalist Veronica Guerin showed gangsters that they were not untouchable. Numerous arrests and the seizure of €50m of assets and €150m in taxes followed that brutal killing, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

CERTAIN moments, certain images, from gangland, are etched into the nation’s consciousness.

Like Veronica Guerin’s distinctive red car, marooned on the Naas Road, its windscreen covered with Garda evidence bags, after she was shot dead 20 years ago, on June 26, 1996.