‘Childish’ Adams urged to respond to governments’ challenge
The verbal exchanges between the Government and Sinn Féin continued unabated yesterday in the wake of the Independent Monitoring Commission’s report stating that the Republican leadership sanctioned the €38 million Northern Bank robbery. The Taoiseach described Mr Adams’s demand that he be arrested if he were involved in the bank raid as “childish” and also referred to the IRA’s tactics of abducting people “off the side of the street.”
Speaking in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia last night, Mr Ahern repeated that there are still three outstanding issues:
