It’s a bit late in the day for Adams to whinge about media treatment

IT WOULD be an extraordinary turn of events if Gerry Adams was to see his political career ended by the gross misjudgment he exercised in his greatly delayed reporting of his niece’s allegations of sexual abuse against her father, his brother Liam.

It is not that the Sinn Féin leader’s failures in dealing appropriately with what he knew when he knew it are not serious, because they clearly are, and that the sexual abuse of children is not an exceptionally serious matter, which most clearly it is.

But it is still strange that a man whose career has prospered despite being, at best, an apologist for the many murders committed by the IRA, and at worst, one of its leading commanders, something he denies, would be brought down by this, rather than by the death and destruction the IRA carried out with Sinn Féin’s endorsement.