Irish Examiner View: Adams' internment ruling a sort of justice

Gerry Adams speaking in Belfast, his convictions for attempting to escape from prison in the 1970s have been overturned by the UK's highest court after it ruled that his detention was unlawful. (PA)

THE decision by the UK’s Supreme Court to declare unlawful Gerry Adams' internment in the 1970s is obviously welcome to him and his family but neither is it a cause for celebration as it hinges on a technicality and does not categorise detention without trial as being in itself unlawful or recognise the denial of human rights inherent in the policy.