Gangland Shootings in Dublin MOD Warning in Post #1 (updated 29/05/16)

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

like in bugsy malone?

Yes BugsyMalone . In Dublin. In 2016.

Sunnyisland wrote: »

I just watched above programs , what a waste of an hour, nothing whatsoever informative about it, And P Williams must have been cringing when the guest criminologist was saying about the media glorified the said gangsters , him having made his living from such actions.

Is there any decent crime reporter left ?

John Mooney isn't the worst,
I bought his book Gangster on john gilligan and it was just far superior to anything paul williams wrote.

Mick McCaffrey wrote a decent enough book on the crumlin/driminagh feud but I find in recent years he is approaching williams level of hype.
That said , nobody does plain lies like paul williams

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

I'll never understand why people have such a problem with Paul Williams....I really enjoyed his books and find him very interesting to listen to. The depth of his knowledge of Ireland's criminals is incredible and I like that, contrary what's being peddled above, he makes no bones about how low he thinks of them.

I just can't see where people are getting the idea that's a liar or glorifies crime from.

he is a liar, he invents stories or believes criminals sources and prints their rumours.
he also is a mouth piece for the gardai printing stories on their behalf .
You may think this is a good thing but printing lies causes rumour and in the criminal world that can have repercussions putting people at risk .

If you read his articles over time you notice he blames people (via nickname) for crimes that years later when somebody is charged they were not connected to the person he named or 6 months later he is blaming a different criminal for the same crime.

I also know that he is a d1ckhead and a bully.
I am very close friends with a chap I used to work with - 20 year friendship so i know my pal's family well.
He has one sibling in jail for serious gangland offences.
Not one of the rest of the family have any convictions or ties to criminality but Williams and the SW (he was with the SW at the time) harassed that family no end. doorstepping and calls to them continuously all dressed up up in a pompous attitude of "i'm a journalist".
Complaints to the gardai were ignored as he is their mate.

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

If he is, then he's got a seriously good imagination!

In all seriousness though, just because he exposes parts of society that make us uncomfortable or afraid is no reason to call him a twat or liar.

Show me proof he's lying and I'll be the first to admit I'm wrong....until then I'll assume people just want to bury their heads in the sand about our criminal underworld.

The first book he wrote, the general was in fairness a good interesting read, but it put him into the position of forever trying to match that in future writings,be it in book form or tabloid, After Veronica's guerin was brutality murdered, Williams swiftly replaced Guerin as top dog at the Crime reporting in Ireland and set about creating the cult of Gangland by giving Ireland's criminals the one thing they craved the most but couldn't buy or steal: notoriety.

Using his columns he built up the profiles of various lowlifes and drug dealers, knowing that the more he wrote about them the bigger a target they would become. It is common knowledge that a few of his gangland stories has resulted in a few dead people,as the egos of said people get hurt.

He doesn't report crime he glamourises it for his own ego,he has no respect from his own journalists ,most Garda and even the people he writes about.

Supernintento Chalmers wrote: »

There's even worse than Williams out there

I hate that word Tuck shop, and also the ridiculous writings of some of these so called reporters.

Is there not some oath you have to take when becoming a journalist ?

refusetolose wrote: »

apparently a well known dissident republican was shot

Probably related to this http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0227/771169-belfast-crime-murder/