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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 ]
A grouping of young Belfast Provisionals, led by Gerry Adams and Ivor Bell, emerged from internment in 1976, determined to restructure the IRA. Firstly, they ousted Billy McKee as OC of the Belfast Brigade, accusing him of demoralising and discrediting the IRA by allowing it to become involved in sectarian and intra-republican feuding.
His children include Gerry Adams, who became a leading figure in Sinn Féin and was its president until 2018, as well as a former abstentionist MP for Belfast West and former TD. Another son of his, Liam Adams, died serving a prison sentence in Northern Ireland for sexually abusing his daughter. [4] He died on 17 November 2003, "a lonely old ...
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 ...
Forensic experts, eye-witnesses and more than 60 former soldiers gave evidence across 100 days of hearings at Belfast Coroner’s Court. Gerry Adams and former army chief Sir Mike Jackson among ...
Gerry Adams had held Belfast West for Sinn Féin from 1983 to 1992, and continuously since 1997. [2] At the 1992 UK general election and in the 1974 and 1979 elections, the seat was won instead by the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), an Irish nationalist party, but by the 2010 general election, they were a long way behind Adams, the seat being the safest in Northern Ireland and the ...
Dolours married a Hollywood actor who had an unusual connection to Gerry Adams. When the “Belfast Ten” were first arrested, Keefe notes in his book that Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave offered ...
Hughes was released from prison in 1986, and returned to live in Belfast, staying initially at the home of Gerry Adams. He was appointed to the IRA's Internal Security Unit and liaised between IRA Northern Command and rural units in Tyrone and Armagh. [14]