Irish politicians are to demand that Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams resigns as a member of the Dublin parliament in the wake of the latest claims by IRA member Dolours Price.
Convicted bomber Price claimed again at the weekend that Adams was an IRA leader and that he authorised the Old Bailey bombing in London.
She also told the Sunday Telegraph that Adams ordered him to bring captives across the border to the Republic where they were shot.
Now parties in the Irish parliament are to demand that Adams steps down as a TD and fight the allegations according to a report in the Irish Independent newspaper.
It says that Adams is set to come under major pressure in the Dail (parliament) after former close ally Price made the shocking claims about his involvement in IRA executions.
The paper says: “Many deputies now believe the Sinn Fein president must come clean on his IRA past amid fresh allegations by Price, again linking him to the murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville.
“The McConville family have already demanded, in an interview with the Irish Independent earlier this month, that gardai (police) arrest the Sinn Fein leader over these allegations.”
Price, whose testimony also appears on the Boston College Tapes, claimed in the interview that Adams was Officer Commanding of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional IRA.
She also stated that he ordered her to drive alleged informers across the border into the Republic of Ireland, where they would be executed.
She said Adams was the key decision-maker in the IRA bombing campaign in Britain and recruited volunteers for the bombing campaign, warning it would be a ‘hanging offence’ if they were caught.
Price further claimed that Adams approved of the 1973 bombing of the Old Bailey court house in London, which killed one man and injured 200 other people.
She also directly implicated Adams in the killing by the IRA of McConville, one of the so-called disappeared and said that Adams called her the night McConville was captured by the IRA and that he normally ordered her ‘to take the people away’.
Price said: “I drove away Jean McConville. I don’t know who gave the instructions to execute her.
Obviously it was decided between the General Headquarters staff and the people in Belfast.
“Gerry Adams would have been part of that negotiation as to what was to happen to her.”
Price had also admitted that she has fallen out with Adams over the peace process and is angry with him for denying he was a member of the IRA.
In a statement, Adams rejected her claims and said: “I reject again, as I have consistently rejected, the allegations.”
But Fine Gael party chairman Charlie Flanagan told the Irish Independent that it is time for Adams to ‘come clean’ about his IRA past.
Flanagan said: “Adams and Sinn Fein cannot embrace democratic norms until they face up to their past. The ballot box must be firmly held in both hands.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.CelticJammer | Jan 06, 2013, 11:32 AM EST
Irish politicians should concern themselves with the current state of economy and why our country is loosing its people in greater numbers than the 1980's to foreign shores.
seamus60 | Oct 08, 2012, 05:32 PM EDT
Well. Seano Adams and Mc Guinness had no problem abusing standing Army orders. It now appears on a very regular basis and going much further back than first thought.
seanomelb | Oct 01, 2012, 07:56 PM EDT
does that include the abuse of standing orders for political gain!!!
DanOLoingsigh | Oct 01, 2012, 04:17 PM EDT
Dáil standing orders allow any deputy to raise matters of general public importance. This is a vital tool of any democracy and in line with international norms…those who seek and secure public office are answerable to the representatives of the people…
seanomelb | Sep 30, 2012, 07:44 PM EDT
BY your very words you condone the misuse of parliament.
DanOLoingsigh | Sep 30, 2012, 05:13 AM EDT
Of course it's a political ploy...they're politicians after all...the point is that GA has to answer for his deeds, and denials...no different to the recent treatment of Mick Wallace over his tax affairs...anyone who chooses to seek election to public office has to be prepared for public scrutiny by his political opponents...It's normal politics...the days of silencing opponents with 'a short car ride' are long over...TG
seanomelb | Sep 29, 2012, 07:10 PM EDT
Maloney now claims that the tapes contain no information on McConville and was never discussed with Price. So my friend "called to account" for what!! a witch hunt maybe. Singling out Adams is a political ploy and well you know,but then that suits your anti-nationalist stance. Go find another crack to peep through.
DanOLoingsigh | Sep 29, 2012, 05:00 PM EDT
Seano - Any TD can be called to account...so will he keep up the charade? If so, why?
seanomelb | Sep 28, 2012, 07:59 PM EDT
Your lot cannot "come clean" Dano the water is to muddy.
DanOLoingsigh | Sep 28, 2012, 03:53 AM EDT
Usual obfuscation and double-speak from Seano – wants everyone to ‘come clean’ except his ‘heroes’?
seanomelb | Sep 27, 2012, 07:18 PM EDT
Gerry Adams TD is not required to answer any questions by the west Brits in Leinster house. Most Irish would probably agree that he was an IRA operative. The status quo fear Sinn Fein and the inroads they have made in politics,now the slur campaign is revving up to the next election.Maybe the gutless wonders in the Dail should ask for justice for the families of Dublin/Monaghan bombing. They know their British masters are responsible but like all cowering cowards they fail to act.
KevinKehoe | Sep 27, 2012, 02:28 PM EDT
Interestingly I posted on this yesterday and the post accepted, checked in today and its deleted. ?
DanOLoingsigh | Sep 27, 2012, 09:54 AM EDT
This continues to be an issue only because of comrade Gerry’s refusal to face up to his past....
seanomelb | Sep 26, 2012, 07:23 PM EDT
Most likely Adams was a member of the IRA so what. I am amused by the term "a different Sinn Fein" I would love to know the difference as the party manifesto is still the same. In fact it's the other parties who have changed and become more right wing and fallen into line with the new neo-con middle of the road fascist dictum.
maireadinmelb | Sep 26, 2012, 05:56 PM EDT
Ok Gordan lets go with your line of thinking for a moment, we want to now separate from the IRA we are going to point out that in war their were innocent victims and the IRA should pay for that - IF you take that line why do you not take the line that those who fought against the ira in that war should also be responsible for those that they kill! Majella OHare was an innocent child - you cannot persecute one side and not the other! Just because you were born on the "right side" of an imaginary line! THe way Irish people now become apologists for fighting for the recognition EVERY nation deserves is what is laughed at around the world! (being not in Ireland I can say this) Further you do not know the why or how I come to be in Melbourne! I may well be able to vote!! I may have voted!
RedBranch | Sep 26, 2012, 03:26 PM EDT
This Town Needs an Enema!
Gordan Duggan | Sep 26, 2012, 01:38 PM EDT
Those posters in "Melbourne" were not elected by the Irish people but the TD's were. You cannot make Ireland what you wish it to be from the other side of the world (and God help our children if you could), only the people of the Irish Republic can. McGuinness CAN'T VOTE in the Republic AS HE IS A NON-RESIDENT AND GERRY ADAMS IS ONLY A VISITOR FROM WEST BELFAST where he still lives. As for DeValera and Collins, it was a different Sinn Fein in those days. They did not kill innocent children with bombs and guns or make people disappear. The Irish Parliament would have evolved anyway as this is what the voters wanted and now have. McGuinness and Adams would not be acceptable as Taoiseach and President to voters (as the results bear this out). To give them that power would have been destructive for Ireland and would make us a laughing stock around the world. They're definitely not democrats!
ancavker | Sep 26, 2012, 11:42 AM EDT
Ireland North: For the love of God!!! What are you talking about!!
IrelandNorth | Sep 26, 2012, 09:08 AM EDT
"Sinn Fein cannot embrace democratic norms ..." since there are no democratic norms to embrace. Difficult to embrace the non exstent in an overall national context. More partitionist political schizophrenia from the heirs apparent to O'Duffyism. An inconvenient truth is that both Citizen McGuinness and Citizen Adams got more votes than Pearse and Connolly ever did. What an occupational hazard democracy (sic) has become. There were far less casualties in the Old Bailey bombing than Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Harris's gig at Dresden. Are the Irish Independent and Fine Gael in coalition. Having done the dirty on the best president Ireland never had, they're now trying to electorally subvert the best Taoiseach Ireland ever could have. When push comes to shove, Mé Feiners will always sacrifice nationality on the alter of perks and privileges. Catch [19]22 revisited.
DanOLoingsigh | Sep 26, 2012, 07:01 AM EDT
mairead - Remember, Gerry was never in the IRA...
maireadinmelb | Sep 26, 2012, 05:04 AM EDT
Who do these TD's think they are, without sinn fein and the ira there would be no Irish Parliament! Weren't Dev and COllins and the rest of them in the same position! WHat a load of rubbish!
seanomelb | Sep 25, 2012, 07:49 PM EDT
Mandela was a great supporter of Sinn Fein and an admirer of Adams,they were fighting the same fight of bigotry and oppression. Kilsally!! what's the use in banging heads with such a stupid anti-Irish moron such as you.
merefalow | Sep 25, 2012, 06:32 PM EDT
political witch hunt.to continue digging up the past can only reignite the future.the pain and suffering of everyone involved in that conflict/ surely no one wants that all over again.terrible things happened on both sides,to try one side and ignore what the other did is no way to peace.
Kilsally | Sep 25, 2012, 05:53 AM EDT
rebelforce - there have been inquiries in northern Ireland into both Pat Finucance & Rosemary Nelson with millions spent - there are thousands of families with relatives killed on both sides who got no such inquiries. The IRA & other Republican paramilitaries/terrorists killed two thirds of all victims in the Troubles. Also Finucane was in the IRA and at IRA meetings with Gerry Adams to former IRA commander Sean O`Callaghan - google article `Finucane should not have been killed - but he was in the IRA` - these human rights and civil rights monikers don`t always reveal the whole truth.
Kilsally | Sep 25, 2012, 05:45 AM EDT
comparisons with Mandela are silly - Mandela never denied his actions or membership. We now have 3 prominent Provisional IRA people who have said Adams was in command of significant parts of the IRA - including the English bombing campaign and the abduction, torture, killing of the `disappeared` many of who have not yet been found - yet Admas continually insists he was NEVER in the IRA
DanOLoingsigh | Sep 25, 2012, 04:37 AM EDT
How stupid to try to compare Adams with Mandela…Mandela’s leadership of the ANC is a matter of public record, acknowledged with pride by Nelson himself…it’s not Gerry’s past that’s the issue…it’s HIS DENIAL of that past…
Rebelforce | Sep 24, 2012, 07:32 PM EDT
Excellent point seanomelbourne. Why isn't the Irish government demanding answers about the unsolved murders of Civil Rights attorney Patrick Finucane, or the Human Rights activist Rosemary Nelson? Apparently, if some British loyalist terrorists did the killing, the Irish government isn't interested in questioning anybody.
cillowen | Sep 24, 2012, 07:16 PM EDT
Gerry's SinnFein party is getting the attention that the populace are getting to appreciate - the other Anglophile parties are quite happy sucking up what's left of the carcass of poodle piece with head missing Ireland. The fear of Gerry is most obvious were one to watch him being hounded in debate settings - that goes for the moderators as well.
seanomelb | Sep 24, 2012, 06:51 PM EDT
Gordon is referring to Bobby Sands MP to use his proper title, voted in by a majority of the electorate as was Gerry Adams. Rebelforce makes a good point as Mandela was listed as a terrorist by good old Ronny Reagan and Ronny refused to ask the apartheid South Africa to release him. I care not if Adams ordered the Old Bailey bombing and if the blow hards below wish for justice maybe they should show some balance and ask their British friends to charge the Tommy terrorist who murdered innocent people on bloody sunday or bring to justice the murderers who killed Finucane and Nelson. You're a bunch of west brit hypocrites.
Gordan Duggan | Sep 24, 2012, 06:03 PM EDT
Don't compare Collins and Pearse with the likes of Adams and Sands. 15,000 votes only. Adams does need to answer questions. I want to know what happened to Jean McConville and the other people who disappeared, these people cannot be forgotten. We must have answers now.
Rebelforce | Sep 24, 2012, 05:08 PM EDT
Imagine the South African government saying they want to question Nelson Mandela about his ANC past? It's been obvious for some time that we've got some pretty thick Paddies in the Irish government, but who knew they were this thick?
aloistmartin | Sep 24, 2012, 04:48 PM EDT
I, never liked Gerry`s coming Out of the Closet to begin with ! As Events in the U.S. and the World, tend to incline towards the Left, The need to have someone in Gerry`s position, lapping at the Dish as of those, who call him to the Bar now, seems less and less, a need to bear indiscretion. Back into the Hills, Ye Hounds of the Revolution !
ReturnedYank | Sep 24, 2012, 04:47 PM EDT
@lokionline It would have been quieter and there would be a lot fewer in it -- great for everyone :-)
lokionline | Sep 24, 2012, 11:50 AM EDT
If you had banned every Irish politician with blood on their hands, the Dail would have been a very different house throughout its history.
lokionline | Sep 24, 2012, 11:47 AM EDT
"She also told the Sunday Telegraph that Adams ordered him" She... Him... who edits these articles?
micky74007 | Sep 24, 2012, 11:45 AM EDT
Padraig Pearse, Michael Collins, Bobby Sands, Gerry Adams: the four pillars of Irish independence.
Seanmor | Sep 24, 2012, 10:03 AM EDT
There are many T.D.s who will never forgive Sinn Féin for winning 14 seats in the last Dáil election, and are now trying to invalidate Gerry Adam's success in Louth, where he got 15,000 votes. The Southern Irish state was a party to the Peace Process that virtually granted amnesty to the Provos who participated in the campaign against the Britiksh occupation forces in the North. G.F.A. has been enormously beneficial to Ireland, North and South, and to a lesser extent to G.B. Why not leave well enough alone?