Colombia probe: Adams 'still to receive invitation'

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams today said he had an ‘‘open mind’’ over an invitation by a United States congressional committee to give evidence in Washington on what he may have known about the arrest of three Irishmen in Colombia last year.

The House of Representatives International Relations Committee confirmed this week they had written to Sinn Fein urging Mr Adams or his colleagues to testify on the arrests of Martin McCauley, Niall Connolly and James Monaghan in Colombia last August on suspicion of training left-wing FARC guerrillas.