IRA-FARC links inquiry 'vindicated Sinn Fein' Adams

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has claimed a US Congressional inquiry into global terrorism had ‘‘vindicated’’ his party’s position - despite the IRA being accused of sending up to 15 members to train Marxist rebels in Colombia.

During hearings into links between the IRA and the Colombian terror organisation Farc in Washington yesterday, the House of Representatives’ International Relations Committee heard evidence that the Provisionals were part of a network of terrorists involving Cubans, Iranians and Basque separatists.