Paul Williams
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 1 Jul
Paul Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This was our JFK moment in Ireland, Irish social history.
It was the moment that everybody remembers where they were on that date at that time.
Everybody.
But I remember Joe Duffy was on the radio about a day later or the next day, I think.
And we were all in absolute shock.
And Joe Duffy just musing on the air said, you know, what are we going to do sort of thing about this?
Maybe people should just put flowers at the gates of the Dáil.
And then over this period, like in the space of hours, this wall of flowers was erected along the railings of Dáil Éireann.
And the Fine Gael Labour government were in power at the time.
They decided that that's it.
We're going to take these bastards on.
And what followed was
Veronica's murder was one of the most pivotal moments in our recent history in this country, right?
And I always described it as the equivalent of a gangland coup.
But what followed then was also one of the most pivotal.
pivotal moments in the history of criminal justice in Ireland, ever.
He literally got away with murder and he got away with murder using his old, most favourite, most loyal tool, fear and intimidation.
Traynor slipped through the net, left Ireland.
He ended up in the UK, keeping his head down.
He was never charged.
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