If Adams is a prisoner of his own past, can he provide a future for Sinn Fein?

Matt Cooper has a good piece on Gerry Adams, that contingent apology for the murder of Garda McCabe, the longer term problem of political credibility: …it was notable how the man who maintained that he was never a member of the IRA, let alone one of its most important leaders, could take it upon himself to apologise for its actions. What “conflict” had been taking place in Adare when Jerry McCabe was shot dead or how was the case of …

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