Ireland's Journalist Jewel

The dedication of this journalist gem Whose writing, brought down Drug dealing men Eire's Sunday Tribune And Sunday's Business Post Newspapers of note, for in them she wrote But it was the criminal world And her writings so splendent That craved her to write for the Sunday Independent This brave reporter put her life on the line To reveal to her country Their drug filled slime To avoid libel Pseudonyms she chose To protect the paper, from legal blows Drug dealers uncovered Showing their ill gotten gains Irrespective of lives and families pains Threats turned to visits, firing shots at her home To deter her uncovering In her investigative roam Three months later she was shot in the leg But the dedication of her Thousands of newspapers were read Near Newlands Cross On the outskirts of Dublin On a motorbike, two men with a gun At a traffic light junction With a Magnum .357 Ireland's Journalist Jewel, was taken to heaven The name of this gem Veronica Guerin " In memory of a brave woman, wife and mother who took on the criminal underworld in Dublin, Eire "