PROMINENT loyalists, a financial adviser to the embattled Icelandic government, a Greek economics expert and a Cork sporting legend will be among the speakers at a major summer school organised by Sinn Féin.

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.

Republican hunger strikers 20 years ago raised their movement’s struggle against the British presence to a "moral threshold", Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said today.