Veronica Guerin’s son Cathal Turley was just six when she was murdered in her car on the Naas Road 20 years to stop her dogged investigation into Dublin’s gangland criminals.

Now, in the lead up to the twentieth anniversary of the journalist’s death, this week’s Sunday Independent will release an exclusive interview with Cathal.

In a teaser for the interview, Cathal appears to a strong and articulate young man, with the same values as his mother.

“If I was to live with that hatred, I wouldn’t be living life at all and I don’t think my mother would not be at all pleased with that. If she thought my life revolved solely around her death rather than her actions – my mother never wanted to be a victim, everything she did was for the benefit of the Irish people and the people of Dublin,” Cathal says in the interview.

“She wanted better things for those people, she didn’t want people to live in fear or to be enslaved by their addiction and I don’t think she went out to purposely go after specific people. I think if she was covering dodgy politicians she’d go after them just as hard as she went after gangland criminals.

“Her goal was to help the Irish people or the people of Dublin and whether that be criminals that were working in the banks or criminals selling drugs in the street, she would have been just after that.”

The full interview will be in tomorrow’s Sunday Independent, while an exclusive video of the interview will be available on Independent.ie.

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