When John Daly phoned the Joe Duffy show to argue with me, Ireland’s greatest living crime reporter, little did he realise the fate that awaited him.
Not only did that phone call bring about a crack down on mobile phones and other luxuries in Irish prisons, he found himself with many more enemies as he had disrespected me live on national radio. As one senior Gardai source told me “The lads are furious with him. They love the snappy nicknames you give them and they reckon Daly is only jealous because he doesn’t really have one.”
Well, he has one now. Two nights ago John “No face” Daly was gunned down in a taxi on his way home from a city centre nightclub. The passengers included fellow criminals like Alan “Blood splatter” Doyle and Joey “In shock” Ryan.
This week I took my life in my hands traveling blindfolded through Dublin in the back of a Lexus driven by a lacky for one of Ireland’s most well known criminals, Archie “the foal” Folan. When we eventually got to his lock-up somewhere in West Dublin I was brought into his spartan office from where he runs a crime gang worth millions every year. His words may shock you.
“I know lads on the inside, right, they were p****d off that Daly’s phone call meant their mobile phones, plasma TVs, Playstations, African slaves and personal masseuses were taken away from them but they could have lived with that. It was when they heard him slag you off that things took off. You’re just too important to the gangs of Dublin, providing them with just the amount of coverage they need to have people living in fear, to let anything sully your glorious reputation.”
One of The Foal’s henchman, known only as Henchy the Henchman, claims to know exactly who carried out the murder of No Face Daly.
“Yeah, I know who done it an’ all an’ anyway. Some people might call dem vicous tugs but dey’re just protectin’ what dey’ve got like.”
Once the word spread around the underworld, a place so horrific and scary that I can only look at it with one eye open at times, Daly’s days were numbered. I’d heard rumours but nothing specific enough to go the Gardai with. When a top Dublin gang boss told me, ‘Yeah, well we’re going to get him on the night of October 21st/22nd when he’s coming back from town and we’re going to shoot him loads of times but don’t tell anyone, ok?’, there just wasn’t enough evidence and that lack of evidence cost No Face his face, and his life.
Criminals need to learn that only I, the voice of Irish crime, know what’s really important as the struggle to control Dublin’s lucrative drug and protection rackets gets ever more bloody. You can shag the wife of ‘The Jester’ or even beat up Colin ‘The Lord of Lucan’ Dwyer’s son but if you mess with me then things are going to get tricky for you.
No Paul Daniels tricky either. John “No Face” Daly might have been sitting down this morning over a bowl of Shreddies and a cup of scald but instead he lies in a box with no face where he face should be. It’s a salutary lesson for men who think they’re above the law. You’re not.
Only I am.
What? Oh great Intimidator, why didn’t you not mention the ‘personal attacks’ on your home and car and how you won’t be intimidiated? Is it because you are not intimidated these days? Somehow-and it’s a mystery how- I know you have to ‘look under’ your car everyday for fear of intimidation, but if you don’t have to anymore perhaps it is because the gangs and scum are intimidated. Or maybe you don’t want to talk about that, or as you say you ‘can’t talk about that’. ( I love how you say that by the way, so…intimdating) It’s probably just as well, I would be sitting here all intimidated having to read how intimidated everyone gets when you flex that brilliant unintimidated brain of yours. I’m so intimidated I might just go and have a coffee before I get intimidated by my kitchen.
Yours in utter intimidation,
FMC.
That bastard Williams set him up so watch yourself, Lord knows like you he was no angel but if we went to prison at 18 did nine years and only got in August, he hardly had much time to engage in lucrative drug dealing and the likes since his release. Sure he was a criminal but when journalists start manipulate the truth and distorting the facts to sell papers and make a name for themselves they are just as bad. And that other part writing an article entitled “Dead Man Walking”, an utter disgrace, I wonder how their big mouths will fair off if Daly’s family or associates see retribution.
To be honest when I saw the heading “Joe Duffy caller gunned down in Dublin” i thought to myself, “Twenty, what have you done…”
Katy French must be shitting herself!
heh, roosta.
Twenty, you’d be a mighty man for a TV show entitled ‘Judge Twenty’ – I’m sure it would prove a real hit. One by one you’d sort them out while we, the non-tv license paying viewers, could make a ton of popcorn, sit our asses on Ikea sofas and watch you strut your stuff on our plasma screens.
Wasn’t it only the other day when Twenty was dreaming about a button that could explode callers to radio shows. Now just maybe he got tired of trying to invent a killer device and simply went to his drawer and took out one of his many guns. Maybe a Glock.
Regarding the fool that is called a crime journalist well he would be better off writing real fiction rather than making up his version of reality.
I won’t comment cos I’m actually trying to get a job with the Sunday World at the moment.. All I will say though is that the Sunday World is a complete shit of a newspaper that I wouldn’t use to wipe my arse if I was staying at the Popes and he ran out of toilet roll..
The brother of a certain Dublin criminal lived in my former street. Middle of the North inner city, it was, but there wasn’t a single burglary or car theft there in fourteen years.
One murder and two rapes of course, but no thefts, thankfully.
Are you trying to tell me that the rapist didn’t even rob the knickers?
Lying bastard.
Who is this Joe Duffy? I want to have sex with him.
Bleaugh.
joe duffy is a cunt with teeth ,trust me
Yer man Williams is a glory hunter, who is always setting himself up as a hero.
Like Veronica Guerin before him.
The cops in this country are useless, that’s how the thick gougers from all these shitholes are running amok. The cops are afraid of them, and have sat back for so many years that generations of these thugs are now running the country.
Look at Limerick as a prime example!
Where will it all end?
That Paul Williams is the biggest cunt in the whole world next to Ugine Masterson (Also of the Sunday Bullshit). That prick wrote a story about me and my mates and totally made up half of it to spice it up.
What a Cunt!