Veronica Guerin was an Irish investigative journalist for the Sunday Independent who reported on Dublin’s drug trade. She was shot and beaten for her reporting, and received multiple death threats, but refused to stop. On 26 June 1996, she was shot dead by a gunman on a motorcycle while stopped at traffic lights on the Naas Road in Dublin. Her murder led directly to the establishment of the Criminal Assets Bureau in Ireland and a major crackdown on organised crime. She was 37.
