SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams says he is “proud” of the IRA and his “association” with it.

IN December 1972 Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow with 10 children, was abducted, murdered and dumped in an unamrked grave by the Provisional IRA.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams led tributes to Brendan ‘the Dark’ Hughes, once one of Belfast’s most feared IRA gunmen, who died over the weekend.