IRA murder of Jean McConville ‘very regrettable’, says Gerry Adams after Say Nothing drama shone spotlight on Troubles killing
The former Sinn Fein president made the comments in a letter hitting back at a newspaper opinion piece which he said was “based on a Walt Disney version” of the Troubles.
His remarks, in reference to the hit TV drama Say Nothing, follow an article in the Irish Times.
Mr Adams – who led Sinn Fein for three and-a-half decades until 2018 – was responding to the piece by the Irish Times’ Political Editor Pat Leahy entitled: “Smart people still insist the truth of a patent absurdity – that Gerry Adams was never in the IRA.”
The piece outlined the challenges Sinn Fein has faced over the past 12 months and referenced the recent general election where Mary Lou McDonald’s party were unable to secure enough TDs to form a government.
It also made reference to Mr Adams and the Troubles, claiming the “secrecy and trauma” of the conflict “must cast a sort of mental shadow over the organisation and the people in it”.
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