Adams: I did all I could do to help my abused niece

In his column (Irish Examiner, Oct 18), Matt Cooper seeks to rewrite the record of the events connected with a family tragedy to fit his own political opinion.

Mr Cooper’s distortion of the facts of this case are highlighted by his reference to what he terms my “gross misjudgment”... “greatly delayed reporting of his niece’s allegations” … and my ... “failures in dealing appropriately” with this situation.

For the record, there were two phases to my involvement in this tragedy.