Brenda Power
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655 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 16 Aug
Brenda Power’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is it.
I mean, they're just making the point that, you know, 30 years on and, you know, Cab notwithstanding, because that was a consequence of her murder.
But look at the Kinahans.
A Dublin drug gang has been allowed to become an international phenomenon.
And really that, you know, her sacrifice and her efforts 30 years ago, it's hard to believe that it is 30 years, really came to nothing.
But also what struck me about that piece too, Brandon, I suppose, was the human story.
They all tell where they were when they heard this news.
And I remember I knew Veronica pretty well.
She worked, I worked with her in the Sunday Tribune before she went away.
to the Sunday Independent, and she was just the best company and the best gossip that I've ever come across.
Veronica had two mobile phones before anybody had a mobile phone, and she could be relied upon to have the best up-to-date gossip.
I remember walking up through Liffey Street that afternoon, 26th of July,
And seeing the headline on the Evening Herald when they were still sold on the newsstands, I said, Veronica Guerin shot dead.
I was so shocked I actually walked away.
I didn't buy the paper because that cannot be true.
I can get the Veronica Guerin shot because she'd been shot before.
Dead just didn't make sense.
It's hard to convey now, I guess, at this distance, what a seismic shock that was at the time.
I never thought that, say, Cate Blanchett captured her really.
Whoever wrote that didn't really didn't know her.
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