Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin turned ordinary Dublin facts into dangerous truth, exposing the drug cartel hidden beneath respectable streets. She played football for Ireland, studied accountancy at Trinity College Dublin, and married Graham Turley before becoming a reporter in 1990. On 26 June 1996, she sat waiting at a traffic light when gunmen destroyed her life, turning a ordinary journey into a national wound. Her death did not erase her work; it revealed how much she had already taken from them.