25-year-old Honour Bright was found shot and killed in Ticknock in June 1925. Despite multiple eyewitnesses placing her in a car with a Doctor and a Garda Superintendent, the two men who would be charged and tried for her murder were acquitted by a Dublin jury in 1926.

Honour was a single mother, and likely turned to sex work to support herself and pay for her son's foster care. After the trial, the media used her story as a way to scare young women who were prone to becoming "wayward", rather than focusing on the fact that her killer roamed free.

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On a quiet South Dublin road, a plaque serves as a reminder of a long unsolved murder Death, Danger, and Decadence in 1920s Dublin: The Murder of Honor Bright An Honour Killing

Clodagh Finn: Restoring some honour to Honour Bright, 100 years on The Murder of Lily O'Neill, known as Honor Bright, in 1925 – The Wild Geese

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