O’Dea: SF using Anglo tapes to divert claim against Adams

Sinn Féin has been accused of amateur dramatics and showmanship by using the Anglo tapes controversy to divert attention from Gerry Adams’s failure to address any of the serious issues raised in last Monday’s harrowing TV programme on The Disappeared.

Fianna Fáil Justice spokesman Willie O’Dea said Pearse Doherty’s disclosure in the Dáil yesterday that his party had anonymously received new Anglo Irish tape recordings and had handed them over to gardaí and the Central Bank, was nothing more than a diversionary tactic.

He said if there was anything worthwhile in the recordings Mr Doherty could have disclosed them to the Dáil under parliamentary privilege.