Adams’ ‘regret for IRA killings’

Outgoing Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has said he regrets the fact that people were killed by the IRA during the Troubles but does not care how history judges him.

His candid remarks come as his successor, Mary Lou McDonald, is today officially declared Sinn Féin president, amid a fresh storm of controversies around the party.

Sinn Féin was last night still resolutely refusing to host the traditional question and answer session with Ms McDonald and attending media at the special ard fheis meeting in Dublin.