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Gerry Adams with Euclid Tsakalotos at the Sinn Féin ardfheis in March 2015 On 6 May 2010, Adams was re-elected as MP for West Belfast, garnering 71.1% of the vote. [ 82 ] In 2010, Adams announced that he would be seeking election as a TD (member of Irish Parliament) for the constituency of Louth at the 2011 Irish general election . [ 83 ]
Gerry Adams, an Irish republican ... Adams was president of the Sinn Féin political party in Ireland from 1983 to 2018. Sinn Féin was founded in 1905 to promote Irish republicanism, and has been ...
After Gerry Adams became party leader in 1983, electoral politics were prioritised increasingly. In 1986, the party dropped its abstentionist policy for the Dáil; some members formed Republican Sinn Féin in protest. In the 1990s, Sinn Féin—under the leadership of Adams and Martin McGuinness—was involved in the Northern Ireland peace process.
They saw Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams as a traitor for negotiating the agreement and persuading the IRA to end its campaign. In 2010, after Hughes's death, some of his statements were published in the book Voices from the Grave. [21] [42] He claimed McConville had admitted being an informer, and that Adams ordered her disappearance.
Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams faces a lawsuit by three people who were wounded in bombings attributed to the Irish Republican Army that date back more than 50 years, a judge said Friday.
Three mainland bombing victims have accused former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams of seeking to “close down any public hearing in which his membership of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ...
Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin president (seen here in 2001) – one of the people affected by the restrictions enacted in 1988. From October 1988 to September 1994 the British government banned broadcasts of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist groups on television and radio in the United Kingdom (UK).
Gerry Adams says thousands of people are alive today because of the Good Friday Agreement. The former Sinn Fein leader was speaking ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Northern Ireland historic ...