Veronica Guerin is a really tough film based on the life of a very courageous Irish woman who fought to the death for her beliefs. She was a journalist who saw the damage done to children by drugs in Dublin, and went after the drug dealers. They eventually killed her, but they couldn't stop what she had begun, and Irish laws were changed because of her courage. The new laws made it possible to seize the assets of the drug dealers and actually made the dealers subject to law.
I was saddened by her death and by the fact that she left a husband, a mother, a brother and a young son to grieve, but it was her courage that made the tears flow.
She was born the same year as my second daughter, and she was murdered in 1998 ... ten years ago.
She left Dublin a better place.
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