My Love, more dear than this life you are to me,
your kiss more clear than the crystal of the sea,
please save me I've fallen here, I am lost and alone...
An angel weeps, I hear him cry.
A lonely prayer a voice on high.
Dry all your tears, come what may,
and in the end the sun will rise on one more day.
Céile mo chroí, do croíse, ar Shlánaitheoir
(Together my love, your heart, our Savior)
Is císte mo chroí, do chroí sábhálaim comh thíar
(My heart is a treasure, your heart I cherish like the sunset)
O 's follas gur líon do chroí
(it's obvious that you filled your heart)
Dom grása, a stór.
(with my love, my dear)
(Eternal Father & Jesus with her, weak & dying. I'm in pain)
Dry all your tears, come what may
And in the end the sun will rise on one more day...
I first heard this song in the movie 'Veronica Guerin'. The intrigue of this piece for me, is that the melody sounds as though it has been around forever. I couldn't resist feelings of enhanced richness, emotional and prayerful lyric.
Sinead O'Connor - One More Day
Veronica Guerin joined the Sunday Business Post and Sunday Tribune in 1994, she began to write about criminals for Irish newspaper the Sunday Independent. She used nicknames for underworld figures to avoid Irish libel laws. When she began to cover drug dealers, she received numerous death threats.
When Guerin was shot in the leg at her home on January 30, 1995, some of her critics argued that she had staged the whole thing for publicity purposes. Regardless, she vowed to continue her investigations. Independent Newspapers installed a security system to protect her. On September 13, 1995, convicted criminal John Gilligan attacked her when she tried to interview him. He later called her at home and threatened to kidnap and rape her son if she wrote anything about him. The Garda Síochána (Irish police) gave her a 24-hour escort but she did not approve of this, saying that it hampered her work.
On June 26, 1996, when Guerin was sitting in her red Opel Calibra at an intersection on the Naas Dual Carriageway, a few miles outside Dublin, one of two men sitting on a motorcycle beside her car fatally shot her five times. Guerin's murder caused outrage, and Taoiseach John Bruton called it "an attack on democracy". The following criminal investigation led to over 150 arrests and a hunt against Irish organised criminal gangs. There was also some discussion as to whether her newspaper shared any blame in her death for not preventing her more dangerous investigations.
In the wake of Guerin's death, the Irish parliament realised the potential of using tax enforcement laws as a means of deterring and punishing criminals. It then enacted the Proceeds of Crime Act 1996 and the Criminal Assets Bureau Act 1996, so that assets purchased with money obtained through crime could be seized by the government. This led to the formation of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB).
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