It’s time Sinn Féin recognised our jurisdiction and honoured its laws

BERTIE AHERN says he won’t apologise to Sinn Féin for suggesting that the leadership had foreknowledge that the IRA was responsible for the Northern Bank robbery.

"What the Taoiseach has accused me and Martin McGuinness of doing is being involved in a conspiracy, [of being] involved in the prior knowledge of the largest bank robbery in the history of these islands. That is what he has accused us of being involved in and I find that highly offensive," Gerry Adams complained.

His wounded innocence was not convincing.