In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.

A young Irish couple flee to the States, but subsequently struggle to obtain land and prosper freely.

An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.