Veronica Guerin (5 July 1958 - 26 June 1996) was an Irish crime reporter who was murdered on 26 June 1996 by drug lords, an event, which alongside the murder of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe three weeks earlier, helped establish the Criminal Assets Bureau. Even after being warned and threatened she continued to tell the story of the heroin trade in Dublin.
On 26 June 1996, while Guerin was driving her red Opel Calibra she stopped at a traffic light on the Naas Dual Carriageway near Newlands Cross, on the outskirts of Dublin, not knowing she was being followed by a motorbike. One of two men sitting on the motorbike shot her six times with a .357 Magnum revolver, killing her. The murder weapon has never been recovered. Guerin’s murder caused outrage, and Taoiseach John Bruton called it “an attack on democracy”. This is for Veronica and all the brave men and women who risk their lives every day to report the truth.
The beads in this shawl represent the tears , those felt by her friends and family and those felt by a nation. This is also for Cathal, who lost a Mom that day and Graham who lost his partner.
Test knit by the amazing beadknits.
All proceeds from the sale of this pattern will go to the scholarship fund of which details are in the Ryan Eejit Group.