Convicted IRA bomber Dolours Price has again claimed that Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams ordered terrorist strikes that claimed lives.
Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph in an interview reprinted by the Sunday Independent, Price said that Adams sanctioned the Old Bailey bombing which killed one man and injured 200 more.
IRA member Price was jailed for eight years for her part in the atrocity.
In the interview, Price claims that Adams was her ‘Officer Commanding’ in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional IRA.
She also says he was involved in approving an IRA bombing campaign in Britain and ordered her to drive alleged informers across the border from Northern Ireland into the Republic where they would later be executed.
A Sinn Fein spokesman has denied the Price claims in a statement to the Sunday Independent.
The spokesman said: “Gerry Adams has consistently denied that he was ever in the IRA.
“Dolours Price is not very friendly towards Sinn Fein these days, she is an anti-peace process republican.
“As Mr Adams has denied that he was in the IRA, by extension he denies the specific charges of directing terrorism made against him.”
The report says that Price and IRA man Brendan Hughes had also implicated Adams as an IRA leader in the Boston College Tapes.
The tapes were originally recorded by the college on the understanding that they would not be released until all the participants were dead.
Police in Belfast have said they want to hear the tapes to help in their investigation into the fate of 16 people known as ‘The Disappeared’ who were murdered between 1972 and 1985 many of whose remains have not been located.
Interviewed in Dublin by the Sunday Telegraph, Price remains unrepentant about her own IRA activities and remains opposed to the peace process.
She said: “It is a betrayal of the cause, a betrayal of me, a betrayal of anybody he sent out to do any kind of operation, or active service, and you know, who sent me to London?
“Who sent me to London to blow it up? Gerry Adams. Yeah, fully sanctioned.”
Speaking to reporter Bob Graham, she added: “I presented the plan to Gerry Adams and he then had to take it to the whole brigade staff, people such as Ivor Bell.
“They then had to sent it up to the general headquarters staff and then to Sean MacStiofain, then the chief of staff. They had to discuss and sanction it, which they did.”
The full interview is available here.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Realist | Sep 27, 2012, 03:09 PM EDT
WoundedKnee: Lol....Ivor Bell was actually the first name that sprung to mind when I decided to respond on this, however, I opted for Murphy as it is the most ironic.
WoundedKnee | Sep 27, 2012, 02:55 PM EDT
Good point,Realist, but I suspect bunkerhill--and a lot of other readers--doesn't know who you are talking about. And if I recall my history of the Belfast Brigade, one Ivor Bell took over after Adams was put into Long Kesh. Mmm...Ivor Bell? What do you think of that name, bunkerhill? Some kinda "English name", don't ya think?
Realist | Sep 26, 2012, 03:20 PM EDT
bunkerhill: "Lenny Murphy" sounds like a good 'Irish' name....he must be 'ok' in your book. What do you think?
ancavker | Sep 26, 2012, 11:40 AM EDT
bunkerhill: Some English names are English in origin, and some names that appear to be English are actually very bad translations of Irish, such as the name Harrington. But away from that, your post is moronic.
Realist | Sep 26, 2012, 11:12 AM EDT
bunkerhill: Desmond Bell...."Bell is a very Scottish name isn't it? No agenda there?" Dolours Price...."Price is an English name isn't it? How does anyone find her believable?" Lol....is this really the way you think? If so, you are an ignorant, bigotted fool.
DanOLoingsigh | Sep 26, 2012, 05:06 AM EDT
bunkerhill – You claim that ‘at the end of WW2 Dresden got money from QE2’ – given that in 1945 she was a 19 year old, and seven years from becoming a queen…and that the Luftwaffe had bombed her own parents at Buck House in 1940…I somehow doubt it…
bunkerhill | Sep 25, 2012, 06:12 PM EDT
Wounded knee - We have also heard of McAdams or MacAdams, but never McPrice or MacPrice. At any rate many Irish, including one of us have names that are also common in Angleland. However we feel the old adage "By their deeds you shall know them," plays into this name game. Jerry Adams is truly an "Irish" patriot, while Ms. Price is about to sell herself to the highest bidder.
WoundedKnee | Sep 25, 2012, 01:46 PM EDT
bunkerhill: "But then Price is an English name isn't it." Mmmm---how about Adams?
bunkerhill | Sep 25, 2012, 10:56 AM EDT
I saw the awful interview with this Price woman last night on our completely biased CBS News via Scott Pelley, and I plan to write to them to complain. Neither Price, nor CBS ever mentioned the British Commander and his motely crew who fired into a band of innocent men, women and children and started the whole civil war. Why is Price and CBS not going after them? I think Price is out to make a little cash out of this and our biased media is only too willing to take advantage of it. Pelley again described the war in Northern Ireland as a war between Protestants and Catholic. This gives most Americans the idea that "all" Catholics and Protestants hate each other instead of the real history of confiscated land by the crown. Our media has been at this since the very beginning because our bankers, LIBOR and the royals are all involved in protecting their unfathomable wealth. I am going to ask that CBS and Pelley give the true history of what happened to the native Irish and get over their religious lies. I am also going to ask that whenever they mention Northern Ireland they follow it by mentioning that it is part of that "very peaceful" UK. All we get here from our insipid new media is stories about the comical royals. Most Americans now watch European news. For Dan OLoingsigh, did you know that at the end of WWII the city of Dresdan approached queen elizabeth II for money and I believe they got it. No one has plundered this world more than the royals of England, and people around the world are still paying for their greed, including their own people in England. Price is a disgrace to Ireland. But then Price is an English name isn't it? How does anyone find her believable. She is obviously now looking for publicity, so how do we know that what she told Boston College is true?
aloistmartin | Sep 24, 2012, 04:58 PM EDT
How many Orgasms did they promise you to betray your Heritage Dolours Price !
DanOLoingsigh | Sep 24, 2012, 09:29 AM EDT
clevelander - The only people who can deliver a united Ireland are the people of the whole island...republicans, real or otherwise, may persuade the others...or are you encouraging a return to the 'bad old days'?
DanOLoingsigh | Sep 24, 2012, 09:23 AM EDT
Rebelforce - The bombing of German cities was an agreed strategy of ALL THE ALLIES…Cities such as Dresden were bombed alternatively by the RAF and the USAAF…you fail to mention the role of the USA and FDR in your post, I wonder why?
IrelandNorth | Sep 24, 2012, 06:50 AM EDT
IRA Volunteer Commandant (Comdt) Éamon De Valera ordered the burning of the Customs House in Dublin during the War of Independence (sic) in 1920, destroying all English land records going back centuries, the straw that broke David Lloyd George's back causing him to sue for peace. It didn't stop De Valera becoming Taoiseach and Úachtarán later in his career, despite it being the single highest casualty engagement of IRA Volunteers by Crown Forces during the original Troubles. What is the agenda of the newspaper that used to be known as The Freeman's Journal? Hardly pro-IRA. Are they as petrified of Citizen Adams becoming Taoiseach, as they were of Citizen McGuinness becoming Úachtarán.
SeamusMartin | Sep 24, 2012, 12:46 AM EDT
Blessed be the peacemakers. A 32 county United Ireland that the majority in both, the Republic and the North, vote for is what I'd like to see. Where protestant, catholic, men, women, children, cats and dogs can all live together in a civilized island land. A isle full of good Samaritans whom go out of their way to help one another. A land that becomes a guiding light for the rest of the world on how to discard the yoke of intolerant hatred. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Orange with Green that my dream!
seanomelb | Sep 23, 2012, 11:02 PM EDT
pilib04 "and Britain suspended the Irish act of 1921 laying claim to the north to bring itself into line with the GFA"
pilib04 | Sep 23, 2012, 09:26 PM EDT
Gerry Adams has nothing to explain.
pilib04 | Sep 23, 2012, 09:24 PM EDT
seamus60. Well, perhaps if you had been in Ireland you would know that there was an All-Ireland vote on the Good Friday Agreement in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The date was May 23, 1998. Northern Ireland voted on the Agreement and the Republic of Ireland voted on repealing Article II of the Constitution which claimed the whole of Ireland by the Republic and to put the Irish Constitution in conformity with the Good Friday Agreement. Quite surprised that you would not know this. In Northern Ireland 71.1% voted YES and in the Republic 94.4% voted YES.
aloistmartin | Sep 23, 2012, 07:51 PM EDT
clevelander@ O for the Day`s when Gerry Adam`s was only an Idea in Sinn Fein`s Mind ~
seamus60 | Sep 23, 2012, 07:26 PM EDT
Kubs. You must be a young kub. The price sisters are remaining Republican and aspire to the 1916 Proclamation. I don`t remember all the people of Ireland having a referendum to change its contents. Buit I do see Adams and others reinventing it through distortion from what it was when they were sendind us out to do their dirty work. At least the price sisters done their leading from the front.
clevelander | Sep 23, 2012, 07:12 PM EDT
Peace, just for the sake of Peace, is wrong! Gerry always was, and always will be, a Sticky. He always was and will be a politician. Those who support him and his like are fools. Gerry go away to your one of your nice vacation homes and let the real Republicans do what you can never do. Bring a 32 County United Ireland.
Rebelforce | Sep 23, 2012, 07:02 PM EDT
Winston Churchill sanctioned the terror bombings of German cities during World War II which killed hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in Germany. But ofcourse, the civilians blown up in those terror bombings were just "colateral damage" of regular War as opposed to victims of IRA "terrorism". Do you see the distinction?
seanomelb | Sep 23, 2012, 06:55 PM EDT
Adams was involved in a war against the English so what if he ordered the bombing it's over. If the English are looking for reasons to charge Adams with offenses committed before the GFA then they should arrest the British dirty tricks unit and their orange surrogates for murder committed before the GFA. I know he was an IRA operative so what!!
aloistmartin | Sep 23, 2012, 05:05 PM EDT
You can run for President, but you can`t hide from the I.R.A.
WoundedKnee | Sep 23, 2012, 03:37 PM EDT
Woodman: What you say is nonsense. How come McGuinness, Kelly and all the others haven't been prosecuted? They've openly spoken of their militant/military past. I'm not into witch hunts--I think it was perfectly understandable for young Catholic men and women to seek to defend their communities from 1969 on. It's not something to be ashamed of, though that doesn't mean that nothing shameful was ever carried out thereafter. Adams' continued lie only makes him ridiculous in the eyes of many, though at this stage I guess he would look even more ridiculous if he changed his story.
Woodman | Sep 23, 2012, 03:24 PM EDT
The reason Gerry denies being in the IRA, whether true or not, is because he can still be prosecuted. That is why the Crown is seeking the Boston College tapes. Price is talking whether true or not and turning informer because she is bitter that a relative peace that has resulted in large part from Adams efforts. So who is the hero here? Does she really want Adams prosecuted and what would be the ened result of that?
WoundedKnee | Sep 23, 2012, 02:43 PM EDT
A look at his biography reveals that Adams was indeed interned, on a prison ship in Belfast Bay. That in itself is nothing, since the British interned just about any young Catholic man who looked crooked at them. Adams was released in the summer of 1972. Guess why? To go to England and take part in the peace talks!
Searlit | Sep 23, 2012, 01:27 PM EDT
Was Gerry Adams ever kept in internment like so many of the others that were only "suspected" of being members of the IRA? Did anyone else see "In the Name of the Father"?
kubs | Sep 23, 2012, 11:24 AM EDT
Ms. Price, while you are taking the time to bash Mr. Adams, perhaps you may make similar efforts to propose to all the world what your war agenda is accomplishing. Since when is it a poor idea to give peace a chance?
WoundedKnee | Sep 23, 2012, 09:46 AM EDT
Adams is a shifty character. I have never understood why he denies that he was in the IRA. What of it at this stage? All the other top Provos now in politics admit their past and most are proud of it. With a few others, Adams was flown in a British military plane to discuss possible peace terms with the British in 1972. Is he asking us to believe that the British would have flown in a 21 year-old non-member of the IRA to negotiate with then ? Or that the IRA would have included in their negotiating team a 21 year-old non-member? Why does Adams keep up the charade? Does Mandela claim that he was never a member of the ANC?