ADAMS ‘LACKS RESOURCES’ TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST RTE

SINN Fein pPresident Gerry Adams has ruled out legal action against RTE and Marian O’Callaghan due to a lack of resources. It had been speculated in the aftermath of last week’s hard-hitting Prime Time interveiw that the Louth TD was considering suing the the Republic’s state broadcaster over Ms O’Callaghan’s dogging interviewing about Mr Adam‘s past. But speaking after Thursday’s meetingw with the family of Brian Stack, a Portlaoise prison officer murdered by the IRA 30 years ago, the former West Belfast MP quashed rumours of an impeding action. “Firstly what was said was clearly actionable but whether I would take on RTE, Prime Time and the rest of them with all their resources is a different matter,” he said. “One part of me has come to terms with the fact that there sections of the media who appear to think they can say what they want about me without impunity.” Mr Adams, who earlier flew to the United States to undergo private prostate surgery, said  he lacked the necessary resources to pursue a legal action.

With many thanks to : Irish News.

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ARCHIVE PAPER REIGNITES HUNGER STRIKE DISPUTE !

AN ARCHIVE paper from the Margaret Thatcher Foundation containing handwritten notes from the former:-)  British Prime Minister has reignited a dispute within Republicanism about whether the 1981 Hunger Strike could have been ended sooner.

Former Maze prisoner Richard O’Rawe said the publication of the document “removes all acmbiguity” and proves there was a “concrete offer” from the British government approved by the then Conservative prime minister in early July 1981. He has long insisted a proposal was relayed to prisoners in the Maze that could have ended the Hunger Strike, which had already claimed four lives and would lead to six more deaths. Mr O’Rawe(pictured below) acted as a public relations officer for the prisoners and has argued that inmates had accepted the British government’s offer but were overruled by an IRA committee on the outside, of which Gerry Adams and Danny Morrison were members, to maximise electoral success.

Documents previously released in London under the 30-year rule confirmed that Mrs Thatcher had approved a message to be relayed to the IRA leadership outlining concessions on prisoners’ demands such as clothing, food and parcels after they dropped a demand to be given prisoner-of-war status. Mr O’Rawe said the latest release by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation further proved his case. The document – entitled Hunger Strike: Message to the relayed through the channel – stated that the government wanted a satisfactory response to its proposal by 9am on July 7.

However, Danny Morrison, former Sinn Fein director of publicity, has again rejected Mr O’Rawe’s claim and maintained there was no concreate offer on the table in early July 1981. Mr Morrison said papers from both the British government and Brendan Duddy, who acted as an intermediary between the government and republicans, proved Mr Morrison had gone into the Maze to speak to IRA prisoners on July 5 without an offer. Mr Duddy did not receive information on the government’s position until late the following night, Mr Morrison insisted.

With many thanks to : Maeve Connolly, Irish News.

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ADAMS TO MEET FAMILY OF MURDERED PRISON OFFICER

” The family of prison officer Brian Stack asked me to meet them and this will take place on Thursday evening”- Gerry Adams.

SINN Fein president Gerry Adams will tommorow meet the family  IRA victim Brian Stack – the only prison officer ever to be assassinated in the Republic. The face-to-face meeting is to be held in Leinster House at 5.30pm.

It follows a request from Mr Stack’s family who have been campaigning for decades for hisk killer to be identified. Mr Adams said they are not the first family he has meet who have been “in this same situation”. “Some were victims of the IRA. Others were killed as a result of collusion between British state forces and loyalist death squads, or by the British Army and RUC, the UDR and other armed groups,” the Louth TD said. “The grief and trauma suffered by all these families is the same. “The family of Prison Officer Brian Stack asked me to meet them and this will take place on Thursday evening.

In their request for a meeting, the family said they were : “Looking for answers and closure and in no way are seeking any form of revenge. “From our perspective an admission of responsibility accompanied by details of the reasoning for the act by those concerned would provide that. Mr Adams said he is “happy” to meet the family, but could not “raise expectation” that Sinn Fein leadership will be able to “resolve these particular matters”. Brian Stack was Chief Prison Officer at Portlaoise jail when he was shot in the back of the neck as he left a boxing match at the National Stadium, in Dublin in March 1983. He was left paralysed and brain damaged following the attack and died from his injuries 18 months later, aged 47.

With many thanks to : Bimpe Archer, Irish News.

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THATCHER ‘TERRIFIED’ IRA WOULD KILL HER !

New book reveals fear after deaths of hunger strikers.

MARGARET TThatcher was “terrified” the IRA would kill her, a new book about her life has revealed. The former British prime minister, dubbed ‘The Iron Lady‘, lived in fear that republicans would target her in retaliation for the deaths of the 10 (Brave Men) hunger strikers in 1981.

The new authorised biography also reveals that Baroness Thatcher once described North of Ireland nationalists as “traitors” because they wanted a United Ireland. Work on the book by Charles Moore, a former editor of the Spectator, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegrah, began work in 1997 on condition it would not be published until after the former Conservative leader’s death. The 87-year-old died after suffering a major stroke earlier last month. The book confirms that despite public denials, Lady Thatcher authorised contact with the Provisional IRA (Gerry Adams & Martin McGuinness) leadership during the Hunger Strike and gives details about failed negotiatoins to end the fast, hours before Joe McDonnell lost his life as the sixth prisoner to die. The author claims that in the aftermath of the Hunger Strike  she felt “sad” and “admired the hunger strikers ‘ courage”. “You have to had it to some of these IRA boys,” she is reported to have said.

She also described them as “poor devils” and suggested they were forced to join the fast or “they’d be shot”. “What a waste. What a terrible waste of human life,” he said. While her veiw of the hunger strikers may come to a surprise to some, so to could be the vulnerabilty she felt in the face of IRA threats. The prime minister’s tough public image was reinforced when she pressed ahead with the 1994 Conservative Party Conference despite narrowly escaping injury when the IRA blew up the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Five people were killed and 31 injured during the attack.

In  a infamous statement, the IRA said : “Mrs Thatcher will now realise that Britain cannot occupy our country and torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it. “Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky onconce. You will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no more war.” Security advice that she was top of the IRA’s hit list left the politician in no doubt as the real threat she faced. “This is why I will forever to be protected,” she said. According to the author, Mrs Thatcher was afraid of suffering a similar fate to former Indian prime minister Rajive Gandhi, who was killed after a bomb hidden in a bouquet of flowers exploded in 1991. “In public she never complained about the inevitable fear but she did feel it, both for herself and her family,” Mr Moore said. “In private she said ‘ After that [ the desdeath threat ], you walk into a crowd – it’s always absolutely terrifying. Or if somone hands you something – look at Rajiv Gandhi – hidden in flowers ‘.”

With many thanks to : Connia Young, Irish News.

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SHAME FEIN PRESIDENT GERRY ADAMS DENIES KILLINGS ROLE

SHAME FEIN leader Gerry Adams has revealed he was in North Louth when farmer Tom Oliver was abducted and murdered by the Provisional IRA. However, Mr Adams rejected as a “reprehensible accusation” a claim that he had been the sole member of the ‘Court of Appeal’ that decided Mr Oliver’s fate.

The 37-year-old victim, from Riverstown on the Cooley Peninsula, was found shot dead in Belleeks, Co Armagh, in July 1991. Before his murder, the father-of-seven had been tortured by the IRA who wrongly claimed he was a Garda informer. At one time, a relative of Mr Oliver told reporters it appeared that the killers had “thumped him senceless til he’d no idea where he was or what he was saying”. Speaking to RTE‘s Prime Time, Mr Adams admitted that he had been “In the Cooleys” when the farmer was taken and killed. He said he had been on holidays with his family and had had no involvment in the events that led to Mr Oliver’s death. Mr Adams said the killing was “to be condemned” but he criticised presenter Mariam O’Callaghan for suggesting he had played any role. The Louth TD also rejected claims by former Provisional IRA members Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes that he had a role in the 1972 murder of mother-of-10 Jean McConville. Mr Adams said his accusers, both now dead, were “telling lies” because they “thought I had sold out. They thought I was a traitor”.

With many thanks to : Valerie Robinson (Southern Correspondent), Irish News.

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REPUBLICAN KILLER JAILED BY ‘PEOPLE PLAYING GOD’ !

This article appeared in the Irish Daily Mirror today.

The family of republican killer jailed without charge three years ago told yesterday how people ” playing God ” have ruined their lives. And Colette Mathews, whose brother Martin Corey is in Maghaberry after his licence was revoked by then Secretary of State Owen Paterson, dismissed suggestions the 62-year-old is “Some dissident mastermind”. She told the Mirror : ” We will never get back the last three years. ” Three years in which Martin’s brother died while he was in jail, but we will never give up hope that we will get him home again, we all love him so much.” Corey was sent back to prison on April 16, 2010 on what his solicitor was told was a national security matter based on so-called ” closed file information “. Gerry Adams raised Corey’s continued detention at the Sinn Fein‘s Ard Fheis saying he and Marian Price, also jailed after having her licence revoked, should be freed. Ms Matthews said the three years in jail have “taken their toll” on their family, especially after the death of Martin’s younger brother Peter. She added : ” Martin just loved Peter. I feel Peter’s death certainly wasn’t helped by the fact his brother could not be there for him.” Corey was serving life for the murder of two RUC officers in 1973 when he was released as part of the Good Friday Agreement.

With many thanks to : Maurice Fitzmaurice, Irish Daily Mirror.

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ADAMS ‘ CONFRONTED BROTHER ABOUT SEX ABUSE ‘

Sinn Fein leader’s niece raped by her dad from age of five jury told.

SINN Fein President Gerry Adams cconfronted his brother about allegations that he sexually abused his own daughter from the age of four, Belfast Crown  Court was told on Tuesday. After Wine Adams told her mother about what had happened to her when she was a child,she, her mother and her uncle went to confront her father Liam at a house in Buncrana, Co Donegal, in 1987, a jury heard.

Liam Adams. Mr Adams is accused of sexually abusing his daughter from the age of four.

Liam Adams, of Bearnagh Drive in Belfast, denied the allegations. He went on trial on Tuesday accused of 10 counts of rape, indecent assault and gross indecency against his daughter when she was aged between about four and 10, between March 23 1977 and March 24 1984. Opening the prosecution case, Ciaran Murphy QC told the jurors that their role was set aside any feelings of sympathy or prejudice, assess the evidence and decide who was telling the truth. Once they had heard all the evidence they would be firmly convinced of Liam Adams’s guilt, he said. Mr Murphy said Ms Adams (40) would allege that when she was a child her father indecently touched her body, forced her to preform sexual acts and to touch him and had sexual intercourse with her from about the age of five. Mr Murphy said Ms Adams’s parents ‘ marriage was not a happy one and there were many occasions when her mother left the home.

” While her mother was in hospital giving birth to her brother Connor, Liam Adams went into his daughter’s room, touched her inappropriately, forced her to touch him and then raped her,” the court heard.

Aine Adams, she has waived her right to anonymity

It was then, when Ms Adams was left alone with her father, that he abused her, the lawyer said. He said the first incident Ms Adams could recollect was whens she was about four years old and living in West Rock Drive in West Belfast. She said her father came into her room and started touching her. In ccombination with the further sexual allegations ” it can be inferred that the touching was indecent “, Mr Murphy said. The next set of three charges of incidecent assault, gross indecency and rape relate to when Ms Adams was about five years old. While her mother was in hospital giving birth to her brother Connor, Liam Adams went into his daughter’s room, touched her inappropriately, forced her to touch him and then raped her, the court heard. Mr Murphy said Ms Adams would testify about an occaision after the family moved to a property in the Lenadoon area, when she was still about five years old. She had her own bedroom but her father came into her room, the court heard.

Mr Adams was wearing a sheep-skin coat, Mr Murphy said. ” He had just come into the house and she alleges that he touched the area where her breasts would have been…. and kissed her in a vulgar way,” the lawyer said. He continued to touch her inappropriately and raped her, the court was told. Another incident is alleged to have occurred in a bungalow in the New Barnsley area to which the family had moved in the summer of 1981. On that occasion Mr Adams went into his daughter’s bedroom, abused her and forced her to preform a sex act, the court was told. Mr Murphy said the final count related to an allegation that Mr Adams raped his daughter when she was about 10 years old in a flat to which he moved on Antrim Road, in the North of the city, after the marriage to her mother broke up. Mr Murphy said first he told her mother Sarah the allegations in 1986 and that a short time later they went with Gerry Adams to Co Donegal to confront Liam Adams. Ms Adams told police about the alleged  abuse in 1987 and gave a statment but told them she did not wish the matter to go any further and moved to Scotland, the court was told. By 2006, however, she had come back to Belfast and again raised her complaint with police who arrested her father and interviewed him three times. Mr Adams denied the allegations and denied that his brother, ex-wife and daughter had ever confronted him about them. The trial continues.

With many thanks to : Irish News.

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Reply From Gerry Adams TD

Damian, a chara,

Thank you for your recent mail to Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

Your comments have been noted.

As you will be aware, Sinn Féin supports Gerry McGeough‘s campaign for release and agrees that his prosecution should not have happened. Sinn Fein will continue to do all we can to achieve the release of Mr McGeough.

Le meas,

Office of Gerry Adams TD
Sinn Féin President
Kildare St
Dublin 2

Leinster House

POSTED ON BEHALF OF :  Damian Herron

Okay. WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? “SF will continue to do all we can to achieve the release of Mr. McGeough?” This has been their standard reply for the past 5 years with regard to Gerry’s arrest and now his incarceration. I would like to know the DETAILS of exactly what they are doing to achieve this? I have been asking Gerry Adams, Sean Crowe, Michelle Gildernew and other SF representatives for the details/documentation for years now and not one single bit of proof to show they have been trying to help this campaign or Gerry has been forth coming with the exception of this statement that continues to show up at election time and at their Ard Fheis. It would be extremely helpful to Gerry’s family and this campaign to know what they have actually done and are continuing to do to achieve his release. Thank you.

POSTED ON BEHALF OF : Helen McClafferty

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MacSwiney Brugha Dies !

MAIRE MacSwiney Brugha, the only child of republican Terence MacSwiney, has died at the age of 94. She died at her home in Clonskeagh in Dublin on Monday. Her father Terence MacSwiney died on October 25th 1920 after 73 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison in London. His daughter married Ruairi Brugha, son of revolutionary Cathal Brugha, in 1945. Ms MacSwiney Brugha’s autobiography, History’s Daughter: A Memoir from the Only Child of Terence MacSwiney, was published in 2005. Politicians including Fianna Fail leader Michael Martin and Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams paid tribute to her.