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In light of the recent correct action taken by Maurice Quinlivan in taking Willie O'Dea to court over the slander of his name.
I have been wondering why Gerry Adams has not sued over the numerous newspaper articles and claim over the years that have said he was a member of the IRA and on the ruling Army council.
Gerry Adams has constantly denied he was member of the IRA and on their ruling council which would have responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people.
Surely the claim that he was part of a group of people responsible for the deaths of 1000's of people is a far worse accusation than running a brothel.
There is also the the recent issue of the child abuse cover up why has he not sued ?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6999848.eceGerry Adams last week used a speech to a conference on young people to admit that he had been legally advised not to sue over allegations that he has lied and covered up child-sex abuse.
The Sinn Fein president’s problems started with the UTV Insight programme in December that accused his brother, Liam Adams, of abusing his own daughter. Since then there have been mounting accusations that Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein failed to act appropriately on allegations of sex abuse against republicans. The Sunday Tribune has gone the furthest, repeatedly accusing him of lying. Such a charge — that someone has deliberately told an untruth, as opposed to making an honest mistake — is notoriously difficult for a newspaper to prove.
The Sinn Fein leader has been accused of uttering untrue statements before, and in any libel trial he would have to defend his total reputation for truthfulness. To take the most obvious example, he has consistently claimed that he was never an IRA member, though he is listed as such in most histories of the organisation. He has been described as an IRA leader by both the Irish and British governments, and was once on an anti-terrorist watch list which barred him from entering America.
He has wrongly claimed that he was in prison when Jean McConville, a west Belfast woman murdered and secretly buried by the IRA, was abducted. More recently, he said that one of his most iconic memories of imprisonment was singing a Monty Python song, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, with other inmates after being beaten by prison officers. The song was not written until after his release.
None of this would help Adams’s case if he sued for being called a liar. The fact is that his word is not automatically reliable. As a result, it is difficult for him to counter criticisms about his handling of child-abuse allegations or the 1981 H-Block hunger strike without submitting himself to outside scrutiny.
In February 2005, Micheal McDowell claimed the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was member of the Provisional IRA Army Council. The allegations were denied but he did not sue for libel why not ?
As recently as Sunday there were calls for him to be arrested in connection for the murder of Jean McConville.
Serious allegations against Gerry Adams but why has he not sued ???Gerry Adams should be arrested and questioned about the murder of a Protestant mother of ten children after a former Provisional IRA bomber made allegations about his role, a daughter of the dead woman told The Times yesterday.
Yesterday Mrs McKendry told The Times that she was angry about new information which Ms Price is due to pass to the ICLVR and which she only found out about by reading the Irish News, a Belfast daily newspaper. “She is the first ever to come out and name Adams and I want to know why they haven’t both been arrested and questioned about this,” Mrs McKendry said.
The Historical Enquiries Team, a division of the Police Service of Northern Ireland which is investigating more than 3,000 murders committed during the Troubles, contacted Mrs McKendry five weeks ago to inform her they were still investigating her mother’s murder.
“Everybody knows Adams was behind it, even though he denies ever even being an IRA member,” said Mrs McKendry. “He’s a hypocrite, every time he opens his mouth.
“But I have always believed that someone involved in my mother’s murder would come clean, make a death-bed confession perhaps. Maybe she [Ms Price] is doing this now because she wants to come clean before a book comes out with more details.” In April a book based upon interviews with Brendan “the Dark” Hughes, a Provisional IRA leader, is expected to give fresh details of Mr Adams’s role. The book is based upon interviews given by Mr Hughes before his death in 2008 and has been written by Ed Moloney.
In a previous book Mr Moloney wrote that Mr Adams, while Officer Commanding of the Provisional IRA in Belfast, set up two secret cells in the city known locally as “the Unknowns” to “disappear” suspected informers.
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Originally Posted by neiphin
so you don't think allegations of murder are serious fair enough we know were you stand thanks for your thought provoking input.
