Paul Williams
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Because they were going to kill him in nineteen ninety two and they planted a bomb in the offices of the Sunday World and um
he just had to get out of town, just as Richard so eloquently put it there, how he was building up to this and it literally got very, very serious with so serious that they had to get Marty out.
And he came down here and I had known Marty's from the late eighties, but this was when I got to really well know him well in the early nineties, ninety two, because uh he was in a bed and breakfast in Ratgar, I never forget it.
Well I remember one time I said, We had one child at a time and I said, Should you come up and stay with me?
So he came up and stayed with my house and he was always on the phone to marry his wife.
He had three little daughters.
Just distant to Richard brings it all back.
You know, the guy
was politicized like an awful lot of journalists would have been in the Northern Ireland back in the day.
But Marty was the most unpolitical person.
He despised the criminal class that the troubles had created.
He was one of the first journalists to expose the nexus and pull back the curtain or the purdo over these guys, to show the nexus between what is organized crime and terrorism.
I know it was this year would mark thirty years of Ronicky Iaron's murder.
And you know
When Veronica was murdered, one of the other things that went through everybody's mind at the time, especially in the Sunday world
Was that?
Jesus, they've murdered a journalist here.
We were always expecting somebody to be murdered in the Norton, particularly starting with Jim and then moving on to Marty.
And Richard, even Richard was banging on doors of exceptionally dangerous people that I don't think any of us down here would have had the bottle to go after, you know?
And one thing that was always rankled
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