‘Adams hasn’t a clue about his party’s tax plans’

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has been described as “embarrassing” after he struggled to answer simple questions on his party’s policies.

Mr Adams repeatedly floundered when asked to provide clear answers on Sinn Féin’s tax rate proposals, he also denied he was “misleading the public on water charges” during a radio interview yesterday.

Pearse Doherty, the party’s finance spokesman, later defended Mr Adams, who had to be asked numerous times before he provided details on the party’s policy on marginal tax rates — which Sinn Féin would set at 59c in the euro on earnings over €100,000 a year.