‘Her Irish policy failed miserably’

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams reacted to the announcement of Margaret Thatcher’s death with a scathing assessment of herpolitical legacy in Ireland and elsewhere.

Thatcher has long been vilified in republican circles over her involvement in the North, in particular her handling of the IRA hunger strikes in the Maze prison in the early 1980s. She was a top target of the IRA, which nearly succeeded in killing her in the deadly Brighton bomb blast of 1984.

“Margaret Thatcher did great hurt to the Irish and British people during her time as British prime minister,” said Mr Adams.