Adams: I was not trying to save career

Gerry Adams has denied that he only went to police nine years after allegations of child abuse emerged against his younger brother to save his political career.

The trial of his brother, Liam Adams, yesterday heard the Sinn Féin leader did not tell police until 2009 that Liam Adams allegedly confessed to the abuse as they walked together in Dundalk in 2000.

During cross-examination, Eilís McDermott, defending, asked why Gerry Adams had not told detectives about the alleged admission until a month before a television programme relating to the abuse claims was to be aired.