Adams acknowledges hunger strikers

Republican hunger strikers 20 years ago raised their movement’s struggle against the British presence to a "moral threshold", Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said today.

The West Belfast MP said at a tree-planting ceremony in his constituency to commemorate the 10 hunger strikers who died in the Maze Prison in 1981 and two IRA members who also starved to death in hunger strikes in English jails in 1974 and 1976 that their actions brought into sharp focus the problem of the British presence in Northern Ireland.