Adams leads tributes to Hughes

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.

The former IRA hunger striker died on Saturday following a short illness. He was 59.

A member of the IRA from the start of the Troubles in 1969, he was involved in a number of attacks on the British army and Royal Ulster Constabulary.