Gerry Adams

Gerry Adams: 'Thatcher's polices did great hurt to Irish and British people'

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams commenting on the death today of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Same old story — the British Army in Afghanistan and Ireland

Last month, I stood in the Guildhall Square in Derry and watched as the relatives of the 14 innocent victims of the British Parachute Regiment expressed their delight at the Saville report’s conclusion that the 14 were innocent victims. At the time of the killings the dead were labelled as terrorists by the British government. The British system and, to its shame, much of the British media, accused those who had been shot of being “gunmen” and “bombers”.