Adams challenges Ahern to ‘put up or shut up’

Harry McGee, Political Editor

In the wake of the International Monitoring Commission’s damning findings that senior Sinn Féin figures had been involved in sanctioning the robbery, Mr Adams called on Mr Ahern to “put up or shut up” over allegations the party leadership had prior knowledge of the heist.

The IMC “firmly concluded” the robbery was carried out by the Provisional IRA and authorised by its leadership. But more crucially, the report went on to state that senior SF members were also centrally involved.