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19th November 2015
09:38am GMT

Last June, counsel for the Director of Public Prosecutions, Paul Anthony McDermott, told the court it had been “two decades since Veronica Guerin was murdered” and there was a lot of material to go through.
There was a “debate” between the parties as to the meaning of new evidence and whether one could rely on old transcripts.
Guerin’s murder was an event, which led to the formation of the Criminal Assets Bureau. Guerin was a crime journalist for the Sunday Independent. She used training in accounting to trace the proceeds of illegal activity, she used street names or pseudonyms for underworld figures to avoid Irish libel laws.Explore more on these topics: