Thursday 5 November 2026Compiled from published reports. Every claim links to its source.

Ireland Crime

Every case followed from the first report to the sentence, or to where the reporting stopped.

Named in reporting

Shay Ward

1 report across 1 case, 17 Oct 2021 to 17 Oct 2021

Suspect: Shay Ward, Irish man (judged from name)Shay Ward

Key facts

from every report naming them
Named as
Suspect
Offences
Murder
Where
Co. Dublin
Reporting
1 report, 17 Oct 2021 to 17 Oct 2021
Outlets
extra.ie

Cases

latest first
  • Meehan could walk free in Veronica Guerin murder, Dublin Murder · Co. Dublin

    Veronica Guerin, a woman aged 36, was shot dead at the junction of the Boot Road and Naas Road in Dublin on 26 June 1996 after attending a speeding summons hearing in Naas. Brian Meehan, a man, was convicted at the Special Criminal Court in 1999 and sentenced to life for the murder, with Patrick Eugene Holland named in court as the suspected pillion passenger who fired the shots. John Traynor, a man, was arrested with Meehan in Amsterdam in 1997 but was later released, and died aged 73 in Kent, UK, in 2021. John Gilligan, a man, was acquitted of the murder but received a suspended sentence in Spain in 2023 for a drug trafficking case. Meehan, now 61, has been allowed out of jail on some weekends and could walk free for good in 2026.

    No stage yetSuspect · 1 report

Timeline

every report naming Shay Ward, newest first

Each entry shows how that report described them.

  1. 17 Oct2021
    Otherextra.ie, in Meehan could walk free in Veronica Guerin murder, Dublin
    Watch: Paul Williams on the murder that changed Ireland forever - Extra.ie
    suspect, Shay Ward, male, named, irish (judged from name)Shay Ward

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