Abstract
Had Hamlet been Irish, he would certainly have said that 'there is something rotten in the State of Ireland'. So would Veronica Guerin, an investigative journalist who believed in exposing the truth about 'drug barons' and crime in Ireland. She confronted ruthless gang members, and discovered the complexity of this situation riddled with corruption and violence. On June 26, 1996 she became the twenty-fourth journalist that year to die on duty. This heroine was killed because she knew too much, because she talked too much. Veronica is dead but her message is not. Her assassination caused shock and outrage in Ireland and prompted a period of change and introspection in a country which needed to be deeply revamped and overhauled.
