Gerry Adams’ credibility - Far too many denials to be plausible

THE anger and sense of betrayal building around the probability that the IRA still exists in one form or another is entirely justifiable. That anger is exacerbated by the fact that one of the central players in the current debate has little credibility when it comes to being trustworthy in these matters.

The issue and all its dangerous potential cannot be put to one side. This is not how it was meant to be more than a decade after the great majority of people on this island voted for the Good Friday peace agreement. The murders should have stopped a long time ago.

Ghosts from our bloody past cannot be laid to rest, or we cannot believe that they have been, because Sinn Féin cannot be trusted to tell the truth in relation to IRA-related controversies that have the potential to cause it political embarrassment or damage.