Gerry Adams arrested

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He also criticised the project by Boston College in America, in which former IRA members Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price, both now dead, claimed on tape that Mr Adams had a role in ordering the murder of Mrs McConville. He rejected these allegations, which he said were “now totally discredited”, and said the those behind the project were opponents of the Sinn Féin leadership.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/poli...l-complaint-to-psni-over-his-arrest-1.1788017



"Former IRA volunteer Brendan Hugheshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Hughesclaimed the IRA had searched her (Jean McConville’s) flat some time before her death and found a radio transmitter, which they confiscated. "
 
DevAdvocate said:
He also criticised the project by Boston College in America, in which former IRA members Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price, both now dead, claimed on tape that Mr Adams had a role in ordering the murder of Mrs McConville. He rejected these allegations, which he said were “now totally discredited”, and said the those behind the project were opponents of the Sinn Féin leadership.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/poli...l-complaint-to-psni-over-his-arrest-1.1788017



"Former IRA volunteer Brendan Hughesclaimed the IRA had searched her (Jean McConville’s) flat some time before her death and found a radio transmitter, which they confiscated. "
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Don't understand what kind of point you are making?

I know you dislike the IRA, but I'm not sure why you've got a thing over Adams in particular (I don't like Adams in particular myself mind). Brendan Hughes was anti-peace process and fell out with Adams over the peaceful direction he was taking Republicans - he didn't want the IRA to stand down. You should be jumping up and down and putting Hughes down, but instead you are bigging him up as evidence against Adams?
 
MalteseMick said:
Don't understand what kind of point you are making?

I know you dislike the IRA, but I'm not sure why you've got a thing over Adams in particular (I don't like Adams in particular myself mind). Brendan Hughes was anti-peace process and fell out with Adams over the peaceful direction he was taking Republicans - he didn't want the IRA to stand down. You should be jumping up and down and putting Hughes down, but instead you are bigging him up as evidence against Adams?
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I thought the point was quite clear Mick, Adams is saying Brendan Hughes has been totally discredited, the same Hughes who said that Mrs McConville had a transmitter in her home. In other words none of them can be trusted to tell the truth.
 
DevAdvocate said:
I thought the point was quite clear Mick, Adams is saying Brendan Hughes has been totally discredited, the same Hughes who said that Mrs McConville had a transmitter in her home. In other words none of them can be trusted to tell the truth.
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Aye but, aye but, going by that logic the Widgery report completely absolved the British Army for any responsibility in Bloody Sunday. Not only is the British Army now totally discredited as proven liars but the entire British Judicial system too - this was the same judicial system which said that McConville was innocent after a short enquiry - how can we trust its word with McConville if it lied about other politically sensitive events? <whistle>
 
None of them can be trusted? But you want to take Hughes' word when it condemns Adams.Just a question Dev,do you think the British should have taken Adams and McGuinness out? The SAS like,not a date.
 
Cruyff's Turn said:
None of them can be trusted? But you want to take Hughes' word when it condemns Adams.Just a question Dev,do you think the British should have taken Adams and McGuinness out? The SAS like,not a date.
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In my day yes, that was the perceived wisdom amongst my fellow soldiers. **** what people think and take out the leaders by assassinating them. If that meant crossing the border into Ireland then so be it. Whether it would have worked or not is a moot point as peace deserves a chance even if sometimes you have to take tea with the Devil.

And I've not taken Hughes' word for anything, i'm simply showing that none of them seems to be able to get their story straight.
 
MalteseMick said:
Aye but, aye but, going by that logic the Widgery report completely absolved the British Army for any responsibility in Bloody Sunday. Not only is the British Army now totally discredited as proven liars but the entire British Judicial system too - this was the same judicial system which said that McConville was innocent after a short enquiry - how can we trust its word with McConville if it lied about other politically sensitive events?
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Well maybe we can ask Ciaran what information he thinks Mrs McConville was passing onto the Security forces? <whistle>

No one that I know of has ever validated the accusations made against her, quite the contrary, many many people have stated that it is arrant nonsense and as I alluded to previously, Captain Robert Nairac was accused of being a sex abuser by the people who killed him in some futile attempt to justify his killing, not that it was really needed, he was an enemy after all.

The bottom line is Mick I don't believe killing members of one's own community, especially women, shows anyone in a good light.
 
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