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Family Sex Abuse Could End Gerry Adams' Career

Rob Quinn — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:57:00 CST

A family sex abuse scandal has left Gerry Adams fighting for his political life, and many believe his chances of someday becoming president of Ireland have vanished. Adams' admission that he has been aware since 1987 of allegations that his brother raped his daughter from the age of 4 has...

Gerry Adams: My Dad Was Child Sex Abuser

Rob Quinn — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:13:00 CST

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has revealed that his late father subjected family members to physical and sexual abuse over many years. Adams—whose brother Liam is being sought by police for abusing his daughter—says he learned in the late '90s that his father had abused some of his...

Gerry Adams Urges Brother to Face Child Sex Allegations

Nick McMaster — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:07:22 CST

Gerry Adams has issued a public appeal for his brother, who is accused of sexual abuse of a child, to turn himself in. The leader of Sinn Féin said he believed allegations of abuse against younger brother Liam Adams were true. Police in both Ireland and Northern Ireland have been...

Secret Army Units Stirred Up N. Ireland Violence: Adams

Matt Cantor — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:06:23 CDT

Sinn Fein head Gerry Adams says Northern Ireland’s chief constable “made a huge mistake bringing in undercover British Army units” to Northern Ireland after two UK soldiers were killed at a barracks Saturday, the Daily Telegraph reports. “You don't understand the history if you don't appreciate that the involvement of...

Chelsea Thesis May Clarify Hillary's Role in Irish Peace

Caroline Zimmerman — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:45:16 CDT

While Hillary Clinton stands accused of exaggerating her part in the 1998 Irish peace process, the answer might lie in an unlikely 150-page document—Chelsea Clinton's senior thesis from Stanford. Only problem? No one seems to know where it's gone, Newsweek reports, and a Clinton spokesman warns it was "written...

Blair Offered to Meet Hooded IRA Militants

Peter Fearon — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:37:47 CDT

A new tell-all book by Tony Blair's chief of staff reveals that the former British prime minister offered to meet with eight leaders of the Irish Republican Army during a critical moment in Northern Irish peace talks. Jonathan Powell, one of Blair's longest-serving allies, admits in a memoir being serialized...

Northern Ireland Launches Historic Power Share

Sam Gale Rosen — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:58:58 CDT

Protestant and Catholic leaders pledged to cooperate as Northern Ireland inaugurated a power-sharing government today, ending a deadly decades-long conflict. Protestant leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness will serve as first minister and deputy first minister, respectively. Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams hailed "a new era of politics...

Ian Paisley Does the Unthinkable

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:01:26 CDT

"Watching this stooped white-haired man reverse a lifetime's course made one feel that change might be possible in other intractable situations," writes Trudy Rubin of Ian Paisley's meeting with Gerry Adams to agree on power sharing in Northern Ireland. The "other situation" Rubin has in mind is for the Middle...

Irish Rivals Unite for Self-Rule

Caroline Miller — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:05:22 CDT

Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams sat down together yesterday and agreed to a power sharing deal for Northern Ireland that would include their rival parties. A British deadline to disband the national assembly if a pact wasn't forthcoming jump-started the negotiations, after four years of stalled talks. The coalition government...