Paul Williams (Irish journalist)
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Paul Williams (b. 1964) is an Irish journalist and author.
Paul Williams was born in 1964 in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Ireland. He studied journalism at the Rathmines School of Journalism in Dublin before pursuing post-graduate studies in criminology.
He is the author of best-selling crime boss exposé, The General and The Untouchables (2006). The General was made into a major award-winning movie directed by John Boorman. Williams is also a crime correspondent with The Sunday World. He broke many of the news stories on Martin Cahill.
After the death of the courageous crime correspondent Veronica Guerin, Williams took over the mantle of reporting on some of Ireland's most notorious criminals.
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).
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]The jury of four men and seven women took just one hour and thirty minutes to acquit Walsh on both charges on the sixth day of the trial.
Williams is married and has two children. A new six-part TV series by Paul Williams on the history of the Criminal Assets Bureau began on January 2008 on TV3.
