Paul Williams (Irish journalist)

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Paul Williams is author of best-selling crime boss exposé, The General and The Untouchables. The General was made into a major award-winning movie directed by John Boorman. Williams is also a crime correspondent with The Sunday World, and a qualified criminologist^{[citation needed]}; he is acknowledged as an authority on the Irish criminal underworld.^{[citation needed]} He broke many of the news stories on Martin Cahill.

His other books include Gangland (1998), Evil Empire (2001) and Crimelords (2003). He is currently the crime editor of the Sunday World and a member of the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He is a recipient of two national journalism awards (Print Journalist (1995) and Campaigning Journalist (1996) awards), the Humbert Summer School International Media Award and the Premier Award of the Irish Security Industry Association (2006). Williams has been forced to live under armed protection as a result of underworld death threats.^{[citation needed]}

On March 16 2007, a man was acquitted at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to Paul Williams. [1]