News about Gerry Adams

When the ex-shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry was snubbed for the job she had performed in Opposition, she spluttered: 'I'm very sorry and surprised.' But perhaps the appointment of Lord Hermer should not have come as such a shock. A long-standing friend and former colleague of the Prime Minister, the 56-year-old worked with Sir Keir Starmer at Doughty Street Chambers. In 2019 he donated £5,000 to Sir Keir's Labour leadership campaign. Unusually for the Attorney General role, the PM chose to recruit outside the political world and made Lord Hermer a life peer following the election. The pair became close when Lord Hermer joined Doughty Street in 1993, having completed his pupillage in Wales.

Street and he has already ushered in his new cabinet. Sir Keir, who is now Britain's 58th prime minister, took no time in appointing many of the key players who are set to shape his government - and the country - over the next five years. While many of those who secured the top jobs were unsurprising for most, some of their backgrounds paint a more interesting picture. From an Oxford graduate who starred in Byker Grove to the renowned 'Dr Doom' who became a household name during Covid and even the chief executive of Timpsons , there are plenty of noteworthy characters in the top jobs.

During the EU's bad- faith Brexit negotiations with Britain, the then Irish Prime Minister Lenny Verruca warned that imposing a hard border on the 'Island of Ireland' would threaten a return to sectarian violence. At a press conference in Brussels in October 2018, he produced with a vaudevillian flourish a story from the Irish Times about an IRA bombing of a customs post in 1972 which killed nine people. This was the grim spectre which lay ahead unless free movement of goods and people was guaranteed between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Sinn Féin has been accused of hypocrisy after the former English heiress and bomber Pearse McAuley's party distanced itself this week from garda-killer and wife-beater Pearse McAuley. Many current Sinn Féin TDs, as well as former party leader Gerry Adams, attended Rose Dugdale's funeral on Wednesday, whose coffin was draped in the tricolour (inset). During the Troubles, Ms. Dugdale, an English aristocrat, was involved in several IRA operations, including a failed attempt to drop bombs on to a police station in Strabane, Co. Tyrone, where a helicopter was hijacked across the border in Co. Donegal.

The agent is widely believed to be Freddie Scappaticci, a Belfast bricklayer who died in April aged 77, although today's report falls short of confirming this. Stakeknife is attributed to at least 14 people's execution as well as the kidnap and torture of many others, but the Army has long defended his operations on the grounds that his intelligence saved 180 lives. The study, according to Solicitor Kevin Winters, who was representing victims' families, was a "damning indictment on the state."

Operation Kenova has been investigating Freddie Scappaticci, better known by his codename Stakeknife, who commanded the IRA's infamous 'nutting squad,' as well as giving information to the British Army's enigmatic Force Research Unit. In a 200-page study, the probe, which has lasted seven years and cost £40 million, has called on the UK Government and the IRA to apologise to bereaved families and surviving victims. Cappaticci was seen on the left in 2003 and, right, walking behind Gerry Adams at the 1988 funeral of IRA man Brendan Davidson.

He did not hesitate about firing a bullet in the back of suspected traitors as the man in charge of the IRA's "nutting squad." However, Freddie Scappaticci (left, at the funeral of IRA man Larry marley in 1987, and right) - much to the fury of the men who would go to whatever extent to ensure the end of British rule in Northern Ireland - was the first traitor of all to the militant Republican cause. He was also Stakeknife, the top intelligence for the British Army who reported on his terrorist collaborators, but he was unable to resume his deadly IRA service. Scappaticci, who was born in 2003 and died in his 70s last year, has been implicated to the abduction, murder, and torture of up to 50 people. The long-awaited study into Stakeknife's operations was published today. Operation Kenova, the £40 million probe, also explored the role played by the Army and MI5, the UK's domestic intelligence service, in addition to Operation Kenova.

As the First Minister of Sinn Fein in the United Kingdom, the 47-year-old grandmother and mother of two has taken over as the First Minister in the powersharing Storm. It's a far cry from her up-bringing as the daughter and cousin of republican militants, one of whom was killed by the police. Her political career has seen her rise to the top in a party that was determined to erase its old image of grey-haired hardliners who were accused of only being a hair's breadth from the provos. Rather, she brought glamour and class to the party's forefront, as well as a more public moderate position that wooed many softer nationalists.

Michelle O'Neill's election in Northern Ireland has sent shockwaves through Northern Ireland, marking the first time a nationalist has held the office since it was first established at partition in 1921. However, the 47-year-old with her shiny blonde hair, bright lipstick, curled eyelashes, and painted nails signal a change in direction for Northern Ireland in more ways than one. Here's everything we know about Michelle O'Neill, Northern Ireland's first-ever nationalist first minister.

Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Fein will be Northern Ireland's first-ever nationalist first minister this weekend, after growing up with her father and two cousins in the IRA's legendary 'A Team.' Following a two-year political breakdown, the 47-year-old has promised to be a first minister for all and celebrated a 'historic day' as the devolved government in Northern Ireland returns. Ministers will be named to a powersharing role in Parliament Buildings at Stormont later today, bringing an end to the deadlock. Ms O'Neill - and party leader Mary Lou McDonald - represents Sinn Fein's new star, with the blood-soaked old guard led by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness leading the change.

Why do we continue to fool ourselves that Northern Ireland is part of this country? It is not true, writes PETER HITCHENS. There is no such thing as a good thing. The Province is trapped on a trapdoor, awaiting the moment when the bolts are released and the floor is spinning and tumbling under Dublin rule. If Dublin is ruled by the republican militants of Sinn Fein, as is likely, the situation would be more dramatic. Vice President Michelle O'Neill (right) and Democratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson are shown (top left).

In a phone call with Mr Blair in January 2000, the then US president was 'taken aback' when it was announced that decommissioning would miss the deadline. As tensions mounted on former Northern Ireland first minister David Trimble, the aim had been to make some strides on the IRA promise by February 2000. The call was made a day before Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams met with Mr Clinton at the White House, where they had a 'lock' about decommissioning's rate. Mr Clinton's call to the former prime minister are among the newly released Irish archive files. According to one of the items, a White House representative was 'concerned at' the feeling of fear that Blair expressed.'

Celebrities from around the world are flying in from around the world to attend the singer's funeral in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, as mourners performed and danced in a jolly farewell. Fans blasted out his classic Christmas hit Fairytale of New York, raised a glass of Guinness, and threw flowers as his funeral procession passed through the capital. Victoria Clarke, MacGowan's widow, had wanted a celebration of her husband's life, so she gave a thumbs up and smiled broadly as she watched Dublin respond as she hoped. Liam O Maonlai, lead singer of the Hothouse Flowers, and former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams are among the early arrivals for the funeral service at Saint Mary's Rosary church.

TER HITCHENS: If the leaders of Hamas appeared at the White House in a few years, do not be concerned. It's unbelievable, but Yasser Arafat and Gerry Adams were both welcomed once more. The Clinton White House's utterly cynical decision to welcome Adams was one of the most surprising and abrupt political betrayals I have ever seen in my life. The massive British Embassy in Washington unexpectedly found itself excluded from its normal privileged treatment. Protesters were largely dismissed, but it was a stammered protest. Its fame had been formally and insultingly diminished. Yes, a'special relationship' exists. Well, Israel might be interested. President Biden's apparently solid public support for the Jewish State might appear reassuring

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The anti-Semites have taken to the streets of Britain once more, this time in the guise of condemning Israeli 'aggression.' Is there a reason for another round of Jew-baiting? In what kind of insane parallel universe can mass murder, rape and hostage-taking by a bloodthirsty Islamist terrorist organisation be interpreted as a legitimate act of 'resistance'? To defend hundreds of innocent men, women, and children on Israeli soil, it takes a special strain of psychosis to justify the killing and arrest of hundreds of innocent men, women, and children, who then use these atrocities as a club against British Jews.

The Irish music legend had excitedly announced her move into the area and announced plans to'write new songs,' hinting at a forthcoming album and a world tour. Just after 11 a.m. yesterday, police were called to the property between Herne Hill and Brixton. At the time, the actor was pronounced dead on the scene. Her death is not being treated with suspicion. It came after MailOnline revealed Sinead had reported on social media that she had returned to London and felt "very proud to be home" in a video shot in her new flat on July 9. The singer's Facebook page was taken to confirm it was her Twitter account and that she was unpacking. She apologised for the chaos and called the modern apartment a's***hole' because her possessions were on the floor. However, there were also rumors of placing Vaseline on her face to gaze after her skin and 'beautiful' sun flowers, which her friend purchased as a housewarming gift, and were worthy of place in the modern kitchen.

After police were alerted, the actor, 56, was discovered'unresponsive' at a apartment in south-east London, but detectives are not concerned about the star's sudden death as suspicious, although the cause remains a mystery. The coroner was alerted of the death on Wednesday after police found the Grammy Award-winning musician unresponsive at a home in Herne Hill, south-east London, on Wednesday. According to a statement on London Inner South Coroner's Court website, there was no medical cause of death.' An autopsy was therefore ordered by the Coroner. The findings of this investigation may not be available for several weeks. After these findings are reported and submissions have been received from the family, it will be determined whether an inquest will be needed.

Ministers will update legislation to avoid hundreds of lawsuits that may have arisen from a court decision in favour of the former Sinn Fein president. It was feared that the claims would have amounted to £80 million. Mr Adams was granted a Supreme Court appeal in 2020 for two attempted prison escapes in Northern Ireland, despite being interned without trial in 1973 at the Maze prison.

Freddie Scappaticci, who was in charge of the 'nutting squad', the IRA's notorious intelligence unit, was charged with rooting out rogue informers while also giving sensitive information to the security forces at the same time. He was hunted from Cyprus to Canada, attempting to avenge an epic betrayal, but he was still living under an assumed name in Surrey's stockbroker belt for two decades.

Freddie Scappaticci, better known by his codename Stakeknife (pictured left) led the 'nutting squad', the IRA's notorious internal intelligence unit, accused of rooting out bogus informers at the 1988 funeral of IRA man Brendan Davidson, right), while still handing over control to the security services. Scappaticci, who died in April at the age of 77, denied being Stakeknife, but it is now widely accepted that he was a member of the Scappaticci family. Though he has been linked to the abduction, murder, and torture of up to 50 people, documentary evidence of his crimes has yet to be published.

Sinn Féin is at odds with its former president, Gerry Adams (pictured), over the conditions that must be met for a successful vote on Irish reunification. Mr Adams, one of the Good Friday Agreement's architects, now believes that a simple majority of 50 percent plus one or more in a referendum for unification, as defined in the peace deal, would not be sufficient. Mr Adams' words, which he expressed in a Tommie Gorman interview last month, match those of other architects of the joint, including former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and late SDLP deputy leader Séamus Mallon. However, they put him in jeopardy with Sinn Féin. When interviewed by this newspaper earlier this week, Sinn Féin's spokeswoman reiterated the party's position that it endorses "the provision for a referendum on Irish unity" as outlined in the Good Friday Agreement, which calls for a majority vote.'

Joe Biden posed for a selfie with Gerry Adams, the former head of Ireland's nationalist party Sinn Fein, on Thursday, dealing another blow to his advisors.

On Thursday, Joe Biden posed for a smiling selfie with Gerry Adams, the veteran Irish nationalist and former Sinn Fein leader. The two were together in a joint session of Ireland's parliament. On a previous visit to Ireland in 2017, Biden met Adams. Biden was the former vice president and Adams the Sinn Fein leader at the time, and Adams was the Sinn Fein leader. And, although the British government's aspirations, Biden lobbied second-president Bill Clinton to give Adams a US visa in 1993.

KATE HOEY: The US president left Belfast as soon as he could and jetted to where he wanted to be: discovering his ancestral roots in the Irish Republic. Biden's 17-hour tour of Northern Ireland - he may have spent half of the time asleep - came to an end with a speech at the University of Ulster, specifically designed to ensure that the notoriously gaffe-prone premier did not make any diplomatic mistakes. Of course, the official reason for his Belfast stopover was to celebrate the Good Friday Agreement's 25th anniversary, also known as the Belfast Agreement. At Stormont, the trip was supposed to include a presidential address from President Donald Trump to the Northern Ireland Assembly as well as photos of smiling politicians. But it wasn't meant to be. Pictured right: Joe Biden with Gerry Adams and IRA terrorist Rita O'Hare back in September 2017