Gerry Adams never confronted his brother Liam about child sex abuse allegations involving his daughter, a court heard yesterday.

Gerry Adams never confronted his brother Liam about child sex abuse allegations involving his daughter, a court heard today.

Gerry Adams has denied that he only went to police nine years after allegations of child abuse emerged against his younger brother to save his political career.

Gerry Adams has been sworn in as a prosecution witness in the trial of his younger brother Liam Adams who is accused of child sex abuse.

The child sex abuse trial of Liam Adams – brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams – is due to resume on Monday.

A niece of Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams confronted her father about child abuse allegations during their first proper conversation, a court has been told.

A niece of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams did not reveal the full extent of alleged sex abuse to which she was subjected to spare her mother's feelings, she told a court today.