Sujet: Gerry Adams protege les pedophiles Aujourd'hui à 16:59
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(Adams a des problemes car sa niece a ete victime de pedophilie par son pere, et Adams le savait depuis 1987 et a tout fait pour couvrir l'affaire et le coupable. Cette histoire est devenue publique depuis la semaine derniere, et depuis Adams sort des affirmations tres contradictoires. Il a quelque chose a cacher...°
Difficult questions remain for Gerry Adams
By LIAM CLARKE
22 DECEMBER 2009
GERRY Adams and his brothers and sisters are to be applauded for making a public statement acknowledging that their father, Gerry senior, was a child abuser.
This is a dark shadow hanging over many families and the courage of the Adams family in speaking out may help to bring this subject into the open where it can be dealt with.
As Adams told RTE, there is a "culture of concealment" around child abuse.
That being said, the release of this information should not be allowed to detract from the very serious issues raised by the case of Liam Adams, Gerry's brother, which had broken a few days earlier on UTV.
Gerry Adams' account of his dealings with his brother doesn't bear scrutiny and leaves more questions than it answers.
This is the man who claims never to have been in the IRA. This is the man who says that one of his most vivid memories of his time in jail was joining a chorus of Monty Python's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life with other prisoners although the song was not in fact written until after he was released.
The list could go on but the general picture is clear, Gerry Adams is a man whose word is not easily believed without corroboration.
His account of what he did after his niece Aine told him that her father Liam had been abusing her does not quite add up.
The abuse allegedly took place between 1978 and 1983 but, as often happens, Aine did not make her accusation until 1987. Gerry Adams told Chris Moore of UTV that he had "no contact" with his brother for 15 years after that.
According to his UTV interview, he contacted Liam again in 2003 to try and get him to meet Aine, so presumably this 15 years break in relations happened between 1988 and 2003.
On Sunday however, Gerry Adams appeared on RTE to change his story, saying "I saw him occasionally" adding that, as soon as he knew that Liam was a member of Sinn Fein he moved to have him expelled. Sinn Fein say that this happened in 1999.
Why the change? Could it be because the Sunday Tribune had just published a picture of Gerry standing smiling in a group shot with Liam Adams and Joe Cahill, the Sinn Fein treasurer at Liam's second wedding?
The picture is undated but Joe Cahill is wearing a green ribbon in support of republican prisoners and these were first issued in 1994.
So Gerry Adams only admitted meeting his brother when there was photographic evidence.
Whether that was his motive or not, the effect of disclosing his father's abuse the next day was to move the story away from such awkward questions. It is remarkable that, as someone accused of child abuse, Liam Adams was not the victim of an IRA punishment attack in all this time.
I met Liam Adams in May 1997 when I interviewed him briefly for an article on the Dail elections that year. At his home in Dundalk's Muirhevna Mor housing estate, he drew my attention to the fact that he was Gerry Adams' brother asking "Do you know who I am?"
The house sported large posters of Gerry Adams and of Owen Hanratty, the local Sinn Fein candidate.
There was no sign of a breach.
Liam Adams was the chairman of the residents’ association, on which Belfast Sinn Fein members who had moved to Dundalk from the north were well represented.
They included Briege Elliman, the secretary, and Malachy Foots from North Belfast
Dundalk Sinn Fein was on the verge of a split and it was clear that one of the issues was that local members resented the northerners and their promotion of Liam Adams. He did not seem like a man who was in disgrace.
In July 1998 Liam Adams, still chairman of the residents’ association, gave press interviews threatening to expose a ring of wealthy paedophiles operating in Co Louth.
How could Gerry have missed this?
He said in his interviews that as soon as he became aware Liam was involved in youth work he raised his concerns and later had him expelled from Sinn Fein.
Yet in 1997, Republican News carried an advert for a pamphlet on drug abuse by Liam Adams, describing him as a voluntary youth worker in Muirhevna Mor.
By 2004 Liam was back in West Belfast, where he got a job as a youth and anti drugs worker in Clonard.
He helped make a video on the subject and was interviewed by the Irish News in both 2004 and 2005.
This was during the very same period when Gerry says he was trying to get Liam to meet Aine.
On UTV she criticised Adams’ role, seeing it as delaying rather than assisting her fight for justice.
Finally, in 2007, she went to the police.
There is, in all, this the stench of a cover up.
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