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Article: Culture: Cate puts Guerin on movie A-list; Queen of the accents Cate Blanchett who plays Irish heroine Veronica Guerin, talks to Alison Jones about the film role.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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There are some people whose deaths carry such an impact that time freezes and everyone can remember where they were when they heard the news -John F Kennedy, John Lennon, Princess Diana, even Jill Dando For the people of Ireland add the name Veronica Guerin to that unlucky list The first three were all icons even before they died -adored and admired by millions -while Dando was one of television's most famous faces.
Veronica Guerin was a journalist who was treated with disdain by her peers, who regarded her as an attention-seeking 'Johnny-comelately' with a cavalier ...