Paul Williams

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After the utter depravity of the Waterford arson murders, surely it's time we introduced a special offense for attacks linked to the recovery of drug debts, so says journalist Paul Williams writing in the Irish Independent, and he joins us now.

Good evening to you, Paul.

Um, tell us what you think needs to change and, and why.

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I, I absolutely do take your point, Paul, and thank you for coming on and talking to us about it.

That is Paul Williams in The, uh, Irish Independent writing on all that today.

Love to know what people think.

... with, uh, Alan "Fat Puss" Bradley, who's denying that he's the target of Criminal Assets Bureau.

Paul Williams, I think, is on the line as well, our former colleague, and he realizes that John Daly, you know, it suddenly occurs to him, "Here, hang on a second, you're in prison."

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"What are you doing on the phone?" And your man hangs up the phone or whatever.

This coming Thursday marks 30 years since the foundation of the Criminal Assets Bureau, or CAB as it became to be known.

Crime journalist Paul Williams joins me now to talk about CAB's history and its impact on Ireland today.

Paul, good morning and welcome.

Good morning, Pat.

It's great to talk to you.

Mm.

Everything comes back to the money.

Now, prior to this, uh, uh, Paul, the, the guards would be doing their best, and they'd be chasing down these, uh, criminals and finding them driving, you know, remarkably nice cars and living in remarkably nice homes, and they had no way of kind of dealing with this.

25 years on, questions still remain.

Who wanted Martin O'Hagan dead, and why has his murder still not been solved? I'm Fianna Fáil and today on the IndoDaily, I'm joined by Richard Sullivan, Northern Editor of the Sunday World, and Paul Williams, Special Correspondent with the Irish Dependent, to look back at the remarkable life, brutal murder and enduring legacy of Martin O'Hagan.

Richard Sullivan, before we get into events of 25 years ago today, will you just tell me about Martin O'Hagan and his early life?

Yeah, from what I knew of Martin and his early life, and we spoke about it at the time, I was aware that He became politicized, if you like.

yeah just to say you're not intimidating me yeah

yeah yeah Billy would have been like who does he think is coming to my door you know how dare you come to my door I mean do you know who I am sort of thing there's all these guys felt that they were above a level and were all untouchable

Paul Williams, I'm going to bring you in here.

I mean, Martin O'Hagan was living and working under a severe level of threat at that stage.

25 years on, questions still remain.

Who wanted Martin O'Hagan dead? And why has his murder still not been solved? I'm Fianna Fáil and today on the IndoDaily, I'm joined by Richard Sullivan, Northern Editor of the Sunday World, and Paul Williams, Special Correspondent with the Irish Dependent, to look back at the remarkable life, brutal murder and enduring legacy of Martin O'Hagan.

Richard Sullivan, before we get into events of 25 years ago today, will you just tell me about Martin O'Hagan and his early life?

Yeah, from what I knew of Martin and his early life, and we spoke about it at the time, I was aware that became politicized, if you like.

yeah just to say you're not intimidating me yeah

yeah yeah Billy would have been like who does he think he is coming to my door you know how dare you come to my door I mean do you know who I am sort of thing there's all these guys felt that they were above a level and were all untouchable

Paul Williams, I'm going to bring you in here.

I mean, Martin O'Hagan was living and working under a severe level of threat at that stage.