Trawl through our accounts, says Gerry Adams

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has thrown down the gauntlet to political rivals to “trawl through our accounts” to find any money from criminal gangs linked to the provisional IRA after Dáil claims that the funds may end up in the “political project”.

The Louth TD said he does not have any questions to answer over the allegation and two reports which show the provisional IRA still exists in some form in the North and has a legacy of criminality in the Republic, after the claims were raised by Government and Fianna Fáil TDs.

Giving his first public response to the allegations at a Sinn Féin 1916 exhibition walk-around in Swords, north Dublin, alongside local general election candidate Louise O Reilly, Mr Adams said: “I don’t have to give anybody any reassurances” as “we’re answerable to the electorate”.