1984 Revisited: Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams shot by loyalists
1984 was a seminal year in Ireland. Forty years on, our writers look back at some of the scandals and stories that made the headlines and helped shape the Ireland of today
Burning Buses at Andersonstown after Gerry Adams was shot and wounded in March 1984.
Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams was shot and wounded by gunmen, who struck as he drove away from a Belfast court during the lunchtime recess.
The West Belfast MP and four other men were in a car riddled with bullets from automatic weapons from a car which pulled alongside them in Howard Street, behind Belfast City Hall. Mr Adams, 35, was hit in the neck, shoulder and arm.
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