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Adams faces fresh IRA claims

SINN Fein president Gerry Adams is facing renewed allegations that he was in the IRA.

Brendan Hughes, The DarkThe latest claims were made by a senior republican Brendan “Darkie” Hughes in interviews with US academics carried out before he died in 2008.

However, Sinn Fein have repeated Mr Adams’s denials that he was ever an IRA member and said Mr Hughes had been a noted critic of the party.

The interviews with Mr Hughes are carried in a new book on the Troubles serialised in the Sunday Times in which the deceased IRA member, who became a critic of Sinn Fein’s political strategy, is quoted recalling his earlier role in the republican movement.

“I find it difficult to come to terms (with] the fact that this man (Gerry Adams] has turned his back on everything that we ever did,” Hughes told a Boston College researcher.

“I never carried out a major (IRA] operation without the OK or the order from Gerry.”

But Sinn Fein said its leader had already denied the claims that Mr Adams was an IRA leader in Belfast at the time of the infamous republican murder of mother-of-10 Jean McConville.

“The allegations contained in the Sunday Times are not new,” said a party spokesperson.

“Gerry Adams has consistently denied these.”

Brendan Hughes was a high ranking member of the IRA at the height of the Troubles.

In the new book Voices from the Grave by journalist Ed Moloney, Mr Hughes reveals his own links to the IRA murder and burial of Ms McConville in 1972, but also claims Mr Adams was a senior IRA figure at the time.

Mr Adams has denied a wider series of allegations in the book.

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Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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