Adams’ speech ‘will not resolve crisis’

SINN FÉIN gave no tangible indication at the party’s Árd Fheis that it is ready to end republican links with criminality and paramiltarism, Government sources said yesterday.

While the Government formally declined to respond to Gerry Adams’ address on Saturday, sources pointed out that the SF leader had said little that would help resolve the current crisis.

Mr Adams’s speech was very short on specifics, with the exception of the commitments Mr Adams made to the family of Robert McCartney, they said.