Adams: I was never an IRA leader

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams today denied renewed allegations he was once an IRA leader after claims were made in the posthumous memoirs of a dead former colleague.

Adams: I was never an IRA leader

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams today denied renewed allegations he was once an IRA leader after claims were made in the posthumous memoirs of a dead former colleague.

Senior republican Brendan Hughes, interviewed prior to his death in 2008, claimed Mr Adams was the IRA chief who ordered the infamous 1972 murder of mother-of-10 Jean McConville who was accused of being a security force informant.

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