Liam Collins

The Sunday Independent was, around that time, selling 350,000 copies, read by well over a million people every Sunday.

It was a boom time for the industry at the time.

The Sunday Independent was a peculiar kind of genius.

Angus Fanning, who was the editor, and Anne Harris, the deputy editor, and they put together a package of very intellectual ideas

On one level, you know, you had Professor Ronan Fanning, you had Professor John A. Murphy.

And then you had the controversialists like Eamon Dunphy.

And of course, then you had Terry Keane on the back page with the Keane Edge, which was read and reviled in equal measure by an awful lot of people.

So it was a very exciting time, I have to say.

And it was a very exciting newspaper really to work with.

Oh, yeah.

She had started in the Sunday Business Post and then she had moved to the Tribune.

Of course, she came to prominence with the Eamon Casey story.

He had a letter and he said, what do you think of Veronica Geer?

And I said, well, she's doing very good stories over in the Sunday Tribune.

And he said, yeah, he said, I've heard she's had a row with Vincent Brown, who was the editor at the time, and she might come back.

work with us, go out and see her and give her this letter at her house out in Kinseley or near Kinseley.

Liam made the short drive out to North County, Dublin, but she wasn't at home.

I left the letter and I was talking to her husband, Graham, very pleasant.

And I always remember they had a big Rottweiler who I was terrified of, but a very placid dog it turned out.

The next thing I know, Veronica is introduced in the office as our new kind of reporter.