Adams ‘must tell all to gardaí’ says Kenny

The war of words between Enda Kenny and Gerry Adams intensified as the Taoiseach insisted the Sinn Féin leader must reveal all to the gardaí about alleged child abuse by IRA members.

Adams ‘must tell all to gardaí’ says Kenny

As Sinn Féin went on the counter-offensive to insist that reports of an internal party document concerning alleged abusers were false, the Taoiseach said Mr Adams needed to do more.

The North’s deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, said he had no knowledge regarding claims that an IRA man, alleged to have raped Paudie McGahon when his family home in Louth was being used as a “safe house”, also raped a 12- year-old boy in Dublin and abused two teenagers in Derry. Responding to claims from Mr Adams that the Taoiseach had demeaned his office by the tone of his attacks, Mr Kenny said that the Sinn Féin leader had questions to answer regarding the alleged cover-up of abuse.

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