Gerry Adams accused of hypocrisy over New York prostate operation

Redbranch. Exactly and will continue, to the people take better stock of who they`re really voting for.

Seano. Why would you be disappointed with my so called nastey response. Did I say anything against your father ? All I know is that your father thought he knew Gerry Adams and thats no big deal, sure Brendan Hughs thought he knew him as well. My friends may well have dark or less dark secrets, I don`t know ( they`re keeping them a secret)and won`t tell me. However once things are no longer a secret I won`t be found wanting when its time to redicule if at all. Sort of like what I`m doing here with Adams. Please believe me when I say " I would have applauded Liam Adams had it come out that he was gay" It didn`t and I couldn`t give a monkeys where any peadophiles ( what Gerry called him after sheltering the same) heart is.

IrelandNorth. I ve already said I couldn`t be a politician as I`m not a good enough liar. What I claim to be is a Republican who believes in adhering to the proclamation that others believe they have the right to rewrite. Anyway it won`t matter too much what you think of me as you appear to genuenely believe that the party was on too tight a schedule to debate the Liam Adams affair and deal with it properly. Criticise policies but not politicians sounds like the ultimate get out of jail ticket. Ok what policy should we blame for Liam Adams staying in the party and being endorsed by its leader ?

Seamus I'm disappointed with your nasty response Adam's the elder may have been a pedophile and I'm sure that some in your circle friends have a dark secret. AS IN stated we are all flawed. IT reminds me of the gay inferences made about Casement(whether he was or nor is irrelevant,but his heart was in the right place.

No hypocrisy here. Adams had the cash and did the deed, no case to answer. This is the way it works when you get to the upper levels of the slippery pole of life. Certainly his blood mired past never stopped him getting elected with large majorities and I suspect, neither will this.

Lastly! Have you thought of running for government yourself, Seamus60? I'll gladly give you my #1, if you claim to be what you are - which I sometimes doubt! Then you will see just how virtually impossible it is to operate in a carefully controlled party political environment, with applied whips, weighted numbers, coalitions, tight debating schedules, etc. And how utterly thankless the task. In fact, why anyone bothers I'll never know? You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Your agenda appears too personal to be wholesome. Criticise policies not politicians. Give up on idelaism and embrace pragmatism. Resign yourself to the imperfections of this world, and your life will be infinitely less bitter. End!

Folks you only need to look at the section to the right of the page for proof of censorship when some one attempts to highlight an issue of importance. Where has the "most posted" dissappeared to. LOL

Seano. Again with respect, when you get cancer thats what the surgeon will remove. Sinn Feins cancer is their minority leadership who control the party as they did the Army and we can see much better now how that was actually being run. I`m sorry to hear that your father shared a cell with a peadophile, but he certainly wouldn`t have known that at the time. However it is a total disgrace that senior Republicans who knew of his disgusting past kept quiet and endorsed him as something he was not, even allowing him full trappings and to sullie a Republican grave to this very day.

IrelandNorth. With respect you ,me, Seano or Gerard aren`t claiming to be the best to lead a political party or a country for that matter. Our individual weakness`s are therefore of very little consequence to the bigger picture. Our problem is that Adams is a liar and imposter practicing a set of moral standards well below the expected standard for anyone in such a position. The 26 have undergone decades apon decades of misrule by gangsters and liars because people kept their heads in the sand and ran with the notion they had the best of a bad bunch. Until people speak up they will only avail of another bad bunch. When I speak up in an effort to fullfill my duties as an Irish Republican ( warts an all) I am accused of all sorts. Yet very few are prepared to stand up and debate the same issue now inflicting the so called Republican leadership that has inflicted other groups and political partys throughout history.

seamusseasca! I hope I don't preach, or if I do that I practice it myself. However, both you, me, seano and Gearóid are very flawed human beings. Why not resign yourself to that existential reality. We all have to give up on our idealised projections of our fathers, or father figures. The are/were entitled to their imperfections. We are too. To find levitating Buddha's go to India. To find gravity defying/aqua planing Messiah's, go to Jerusalem. The Rt Hon Dep Adams is not the Rev Sung Myung Moon - ya know!

seamus you are justifieing Ireland North "obsessional analysis" by continuing to make Adams the focal point of all arguments. My father knew Adams and was incarcerated with his father.

Stay home in your basement Gerry you are a liar,liar,liar anybody who would donate money to yourgobshite has no brains! You are a disgrace to the socialist movement worldwide!

Folks. whats up ? I feel like i just walked into Connelly House and asked an awkward question about Adams. If he`s the man for the job there should be no problem defending his corner otherwise swallow your pride as a lot of us have already done and its never nice, to accept that you have been duped. The brits are the real experts with thousands of years practice so there should be no shame. We may not even be the last generation of Republicans being sold out before the brits go.

IrishNorth. Back to your preferred issue of constructive criticism. what do you think of people who don`t practice what they preach. Can`t remember what your opinion was on the Cardinal but if it differs that will be fine with me.

It must be my knowing him personally that dictates a position of obsessionality. Perhaps its just frustration at a hoax who has used and abused very honest and honourable Republicans for self gain remaining in power. Either way its a sad reflection on the future of Irish Republicanism when so many prefer to bury their head in the sand instead of doing their republican duty of fixing something when its broke. We can hardly equate Adams and others as the foundations of Republicanism. Although people buy into the unhealthy notion.