Adams: The most cunning political leader of them all

The continued insistence by Sinn Féin that the arrest and detention of party leader Gerry Adams in connection with the murder of Jean McConville was politically motivated is beginning to wear thin.

At a press conference in Belfast yesterday afternoon, Martin McGuinness said there had been “political interference in the policing and in the justice system” in the North. He said there had been a “very deliberate attempt to have an impact” on the local and European elections.

The party’s deputy leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has been especially strident in claiming that “unionist elements”, combined with the “old guard” in the PSNI, helped bring about the arrest of Mr Adams.