Question:  Who directed "The General", a British-Irish crime film about Martin "The General" Cahill who was a prominent Irish criminal from Dublin?

Context articles: Martin Cahill
James O'Donovan
The General (1998 film)
Trojan Eddie
Hal Roach (comedian)
Philip Lynch
George Stapleton
Rachel Joynt
Martin Foley
Concerned Criminals Action Committee

Martin "The General" Cahill (23 May 1949 – 18 August 1994) was a prominent Irish criminal from Dublin.
Dr James O'Donovan was, until his retirement in 2002, the senior forensic scientist to the Garda Technical Bureau of the Garda Síochána (Irish police).
 He is most notable as a key witness in the Irish Republican Army murder of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and as the target himself of Irish criminal Martin Cahill.
The General is a British-Irish crime film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s and attracted the attention of the Garda Síochána, IRA, and Ulster Volunteer Force.
 The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998.
 Brendan Gleeson plays Cahill, Adrian Dunbar plays his friend Noel Curley, and Jon Voight plays Inspector Ned Kenny.
Trojan Eddie is a 1996 British-Irish crime drama film directed by Gillies MacKinnon.
Hal Roach (4 November 1927 – 28 February 2012) was a prominent Irish comedian.
 He spent over 60 years in show business, and was featured in the "Guinness Book of Records" for the longest-running engagement of a comedian at the same venue: 26 years at Jury's Irish Cabaret, Jury's Ballsbridge Hotel, Dublin.
Philip Lynch (born 1946) is a prominent Irish businessman who has held the position of chief executive at two Irish public limited companies and multiple senior directorships including chairman of the board of An Post.
 In October 2010, he was forced by the then Irish minister for health, Mary Harney, to resign his position as chairman of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board over his desire to relocate the new Irish children's hospital from Dublin city centre to a site near the M50 motorway.
George Stapleton (born Dublin, Ireland, in 1777, died 1841, in Dublin) was a prominent Irish "stuccodore", son of Michael Stapleton.
Rachel Joynt (born 1966 in County Kerry) is an Irish sculptor who has created some prominent Irish public art.
 She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1989 with a degree in sculpture.
Martin "The Viper" Foley (born 24 November 1952) is a well-known Irish criminal.
 He rose from a street drug dealer to become an associate of Martin Cahill.
 Foley has 40 convictions.
 He is considered a key figure in the McCormack-Foley crime family from Crumlin, Dublin.
 He has had several attempts on his life including being shot on five different occasions, including most recently on 26 January 2008.
 Foley was shot a number of times outside the Carlisle gym on Kimmage Road West, South Dublin.
 The men behind the attack were involved in a separate gun feud, which has since run its course because the main players are either all dead or in prison.
 Foley has kept a lower profile since then.
The Concerned Criminals Action Committee (CCAC) was a group formed by members of the Martin Cahill criminal gang in Dublin in the 1980s, as a foil to the Concerned Parents Against Drugs (CPAD) group.
 CPAD formed in February 1984, to address drug activity in the community through citizen patrols and checkpoints.
 Members of the CCAC stated that they were not organising in support of the drug trade, but rather because of concerns that CPAD was reporting other criminal activities to the Garda as well, and interfering with non-drug criminal activities.