Veronica Guerin
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Oct 21, 2026
Peter O'DonoghueGUEST
And they have to really, really look and think at what they're doing now.
Fran CurryHOST
The killing of Veronica Guerin all those years ago was a watershed moment.
Fran CurryHOST
And of course, we had the formation of CAB afterwards, which has proved to be extremely successful.
Fran CurryHOST
Do you see that awful tragedy in Waterford as maybe a moment that we might begin to, uh, try at least to come up with some way to, to, to do something about this once, once and for all?
Peter O'DonoghueGUEST
Yeah.
Peter O'DonoghueGUEST
I, I think this moment is, is as big and is a, is a, as significant as, um, that time when Veronica Guerin was killed by drug gangs, another innocent woman, completely innocent woman.
Peter O'DonoghueGUEST
This is a, it's a big moment, and I would welcome what I'm hearing from the minister in relation to this, uh, Minister Jim O'Callaghan.
Peter O'DonoghueGUEST
And all the parties across the political spectrum are united on this as far as I can see, that we have to tackle the drugs issue here.
John SweetmanHOST
well.
John SweetmanHOST
I remember, like, I mean, it's one of those things, like, it's like, you know, I remember where I was when I heard Veronica Guerin was shot.
John SweetmanHOST
I remember where I was when I heard David Donoghue had been killed because I was dropping one of the kids down at school or something like that, and I was like, Jesus.
Pat MarryGUEST
Decent guy, lovely man.
Paul WilliamsGUEST
Because the society that we live in, [clears throat] and criminal laws are written and enacted to react to the actions of bad people.
Paul WilliamsGUEST
Uh, like for example, when Veronica Guerin was murdered-
Ciara KellyHOST
Mm-hmm
Paul WilliamsGUEST
... we brought in, the state brought in the Proceeds of Crime Act, which was seen as draconian at the time.
Paddy PrendivilleGUEST
It doesn't make much difference.
Paddy PrendivilleGUEST
That was why Veronica Guerin, for most of her time as a security correspondent, went to the criminals as well as the guards.
Paddy PrendivilleGUEST
Now, you know, all right.
Paddy PrendivilleGUEST
That's a particularly bad example, or good example, of the way in which you have the knowledge, you have the sources, the information which the government or the guards or the Department of Justice has, and we will give you a little bit of it if you play ball.
8 MINS LATER
Paddy PrendivilleGUEST
We could both go through a lot of libel stories here.
Paddy PrendivilleGUEST
Can I just tell one more? Please.
Paddy PrendivilleGUEST
Which is the day that Veronica Guerin rang me up.
Paddy PrendivilleGUEST
Do you remember? Michael MacDowell.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
know.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
It makes me think to some degree of, you know, after Veronica Guerin was killed and there were actually massive protests really across Ireland kind of against drug culture and the violence that comes with it.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
And yeah, it's interesting to me because it does strike, and there was a huge vigil held in remembrance of the family, but it does strike me as something that maybe, you know, as a population we could afford to actually kind of care a little bit more about because it's really kind of impossible to stress how awful this is.
Carl KinsellaGUEST
Yeah.
Ciaran CudahyHOST
Yeah.
Ciaran CudahyHOST
Um, I, and, and I, uh, on some level, this is an awful way to think about what happened in Waterford, but, you know, Jim O'Callaghan talked about it being a watershed moment, and I know during the week somebody else on the show mentioned Veronica Guerin and, and, and her murder and, and how CAB was established, and it led to a big crackdown on organized crime.
Ciaran CudahyHOST
That maybe the, the good that comes out of it is, is, is a, is some sort of change.
Ciaran CudahyHOST
Is that, is that too positive a way of looking at what's an awful tragedy?
Brian RedmondHOST
talked in wonder.
Brian RedmondHOST
And what I see, he wondered, for example, if this was going to be a moment, a bit like the terrible killing of Veronica Guerin.
Brian RedmondHOST
As a result of the killing of Veronica Guerin, we saw a top, I would suggest, a top-down approach to tackling criminality and the criminality around drugs, where we went after the top guys, you know, that's driven many of them out of the country.
Brian RedmondHOST
Many of them are still obviously running their criminal empires from abroad.
Brian RedmondHOST
Is this, and indeed the arrests of those who perpetrated the, potentially perpetrated the crime, maybe Harold, to start of a bottom up approach, Kathleen, do you think maybe this is how we need to now tackle this crime? Because top down is great.
John HearneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And if it wasn't handy money, they'd get out of it, you know? They'd go and do something else.
Fran CurryHOST
When Bron- when Veronica Guerin wa- was shot, it triggered action, and we had CAB immediately after that, who did-
John HearneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Absolutely
Fran CurryHOST
... tremendous work.
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Joe LeePANELIST
And I don't want to hurt anyone out there who have lost anybody through this, but this isn't getting any better, Fran.
Joe LeePANELIST
This is getting worse and worse.
Joe LeePANELIST
And I would love to see, one thing, I was listening to John Hearne last night, the Sinn Féin councilor on the, on the six o'clock news, and he said, you know, he mentioned Veronica Guerin.
Fran CurryHOST
Yeah.
PJ CooganHOST
Yeah
Ken O'FlynnGUEST
... uh, going after the, going after the big fellas, um, the big drug dealers, and that was brought in after the, the murder of Veronica Guerin.
Ken O'FlynnGUEST
Unfortunately, this country seems to be reactive rather than proactive when it comes to getting a handle on what's happening in the drug scene in this country.
Ken O'FlynnGUEST
Uh, and, you know, you know, uh, this is an awful tragedy that happened in Wa- Waterford, but hap- perhaps a good thing will come out of it in the sense that there will be a crackdown, that there will be a zero tolerance on the smaller guys.
PatHOST
Uh, 30 years since, uh, the Criminal Assets Bureau launched in Ireland.
PatHOST
Can you believe it's 30 years? Of course, it was started after, um, Veronica Guerin was killed, wasn't it? CAB.
PatHOST
Y- I, I can't believe it's 30 years, but I also can't believe that it wasn't there before 30 years ago.
PatHOST
Seems like an obvious thing, that a Criminal Assets Bureau would be, you know, set up many, many years ago.
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