Adams’s sex abuse account challenged

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams’s account of how he dealt with child sex abuse allegations involving his brother has been directly contradicted by the alleged abuse victim.

In an interview in the Sunday Tribune, alleged abuse victim Áine Tyrell, the niece of Gerry Adams, said she repeatedly requested that her father, Liam, 54, was not allowed to work with children but was told by the Sinn Féin leader – “that was Liam’s way of trying to make up to the community for what he had done” to her.

Liam Adams worked with youth groups in republican areas of Dundalk and Belfast from the mid-1990s to 2006.