Sinn Féin allegations: There can be no justice while Adams is a law unto himself

MÁIRIA Cahill’s case is not primarily about sexual abuse. It is about abuse, and abuse is about power. 

Gerry Adams as Teflon terrorist, and Sinn Féin on his behalf, must sink this matter without trace into the ‘sediment’ underneath our society. Sexual abuse, a society in conflict, the absence of an accountable policing service, are all wastelands into which this, like dead bodies, can be buried, never to be found again. But this is a ‘body’ that cannot be buried.

The potency of Ms Cahill’s allegation is not what she did or did not tell Adams. It is less about what Adams says is “our” society’s “extremely bad” form in facing up to issues of sexual abuse. Sinn Féin, having dismissed the pleadings of Church men, who, if only they knew then what they know now would have acted differently, allows us reject that insincere connivance. But let’s not bother; it’s a sideshow, a hall of mirrors in a circus, intended to distort. We should not be distracted.