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Veronica Guerin

1958 - 1996

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Veronica Guerin has received more than 1,248,529 page views. Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Veronica Guerin is the 62nd most popular journalist (up from 68th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 193rd in 2019) and the most popular Irish Journalist.

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  • 50.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Veronica Guerin ranks 62 out of 196. Before her are Daphne Caruana Galizia, Francesco Alberoni, William Wilson, Bill Brandt, Plínio Salgado, and Selma Rıza. After her are Ernst Haas, Vladimir Solovyov, Jacob Riis, Marie Colvin, Maurizio Costanzo, and Piers Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Veronica Guerin ranks 165. Before her are Mark Milley, Luis Guillermo Solís, Jean-Claude Hollerich, Christiane Amanpour, Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, and Nouriel Roubini. After her are Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, Nikos Anastopoulos, Julio Medem, Richard Burgi, Julio Olarticoechea, and Jan Fabre. Among people deceased in 1996, Veronica Guerin ranks 178. Before her are Laurens van der Post, Gottfried von Einem, George Burns, Kenneth Bainbridge, Rob Hall, and George Kojac. After her are Eno Raud, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Andrey Lukanov, Jamie Uys, Alger Hiss, and Joseph Asajiro Satowaki.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Veronica Guerin ranks 164 out of 549. Before her are William Orpen (1878), John de Robeck (1862), George Browne (1698), Mary Harris Jones (1837), John Ellis (1710), and Dorothea Jordan (1761). After her are George Allman (1812), Ronan Keating (1977), Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913), Violet Gibson (1876), Sinéad Cusack (1948), and Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Ireland

Among journalists born in Ireland, Veronica Guerin ranks 1. 

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