The Most Famous
JOURNALISTS from Ireland
This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 127 Journalists, 1 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 32nd most number of Journalists behind Austria and Haiti.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Irish Journalists of all time. This list of famous Irish Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Veronica Guerin (1958 - 1996)
With an HPI of 47.34, Veronica Guerin is the most famous Irish Journalist. Her biography has been translated into 57 different languages on wikipedia.
Veronica Guerin Turley (5 July 1959 – 26 June 1996) was an Irish investigative journalist focusing on organised crime in the Republic of Ireland, who was murdered in a contract killing believed to have been ordered by a South Dublin-based drug cartel. Born in Dublin, she was an athlete in school and later played on the Irish national teams for both Association football and basketball. After studying accountancy she ran a public-relations firm for seven years, before working for Fianna Fáil and as an election agent for Seán Haughey. She became a reporter in 1990, writing for the Sunday Business Post and Sunday Tribune. In 1994 she began writing articles about the Irish criminal underworld for the Sunday Independent. In 1996, after pressing charges for assault against major organised crime figure John Gilligan, Guerin was ambushed and fatally shot in her vehicle while waiting at a traffic light. The shooting caused national outrage in Ireland. Investigation into her death led to a number of arrests and convictions.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as journalists born between 1958 and 1958. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased journalists include Veronica Guerin.
