Gerry Adams says he has instructed his lawyers to take "appropriate legal action" against Independent Newspapers.

The paedophile brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has mounted an appeal bid against his conviction and sentence for raping and sexually abusing his daughter.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin had not only every right but also the responsibility to raise the issue about Sinn Féin allegedly dealing with cases of sexual abuse internally, instead of reporting such allegations to the proper civil authorities.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin has attacked the republican movement by comparing it to the Catholic Church for trying to deal with cases of sexual abuse internally rather than alert the authorities.

Gerry Adams has slammed accusations by the Fianna Fáil leader of a sex abuse cover-up within the Republican movement as "completely out of order" and "a new low".

The niece of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has welcomed the 16-year jail sentence handed down to her sex abuser father, but insisted it was still too little, too late.

The conviction and sentencing of Liam Adams for raping his daughter has been described as “much too little too late” by his victim.

The paedophile brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping his daughter.

The paedophile brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams will be jailed today after being convicted of raping his daughter.

The paedophile brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams should not be subject to lengthy sex offender supervision measures on his eventual release from prison, as he does not pose a serious risk to the public, his lawyer has urged.

The judge responsible for sentencing the convicted sex offender brother of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has asked for further legal submissions before commencing her considerations.

Gerry Adams’s sex abuser brother, who is being held in high-security custody in the North amid concerns he is under threat, should be jailed for at least 15 years, a judge has been urged.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams’s sex abuser brother, who is being held in high-security custody in Northern Ireland amid concerns he is under threat, should be jailed for at least 15 years, a judge has been urged.

In his column (Irish Examiner, Oct 18), Matt Cooper seeks to rewrite the record of the events connected with a family tragedy to fit his own political opinion.

IT WOULD be an extraordinary turn of events if Gerry Adams was to see his political career ended by the gross misjudgment he exercised in his greatly delayed reporting of his niece’s allegations of sexual abuse against her father, his brother Liam.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has described claims that he covered up for his convicted paedophile brother as “patently cynical and untrue” and says he’s become the victim of a witch-hunt.

Gerry Adams claimed today that he is being targeted by a "trial by media and a witch-hunt".

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has claimed he is not concerned that his former lawyer ordered a review of allegations that he withheld information on his sex abuser brother.

The decision not to prosecute Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams over allegations he covered up for his sex abuser brother is to be reviewed.

A decision not to prosecute Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams over allegations that he withheld information on his sex abuser brother is to be reviewed.

Prosecutors advised police not to investigate Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams in 2010 over claims he withheld information about his brother’s sex abuse from detectives, it was revealed today.

The Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams is refusing to say why he didn't inform child protection authorities after his brother Liam got a job working with children in Louth in 2003.

A younger brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has been found guilty of a string of child sex abuse charges.

Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, has been found guilty of 10 counts of child sex abuse against his daughter.

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.

A brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams who is facing trial on a series of sex offence charges has been refused bail.

A brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was remanded in custody today to face sex offence charges.

The brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is due to face sex charges in Belfast today after being extradited to the North.

The brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is due to face sex charges in Belfast tomorrow after being extradited from the Republic.

LIAM ADAMS has been taken into custody after losing his bid to appeal against the decision to extradite him to the North.

The brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams will be extradited to the North next month to face 18 allegations that he abused his daughter.

The brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has been remanded in custody after losing a legal bid to appeal against his extradition to the North on sex abuse charges.

THE High Court has ordered that Liam Adams be extradited to the North to face multiple charges of rape and indecent assault against one of his daughters.

Liam Adams will have to wait until Monday to find out if he is to be extradited to the North on charges of raping and abusing his daughter.

The High Court is due to rule today whether to extradite Gerry Adams' brother Liam back to the North on rape charges.

A High Court judge has described the content of a TV news programme detailing allegations of sexual abuse made against Liam Adams by his daughter as “objectionable and obnoxious”.

The brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was outed as a monster and paedophile on the run whose denials of child sex abuse went unreported, a court heard today.

Liam Adams has begun his High Court fight against extradition to the North on abuse charges.