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More Crap on Adams, Mod Warning in OP.

  • 17-10-2014 10:01am
    #1
    gunny558
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭


    Ok I live under a rock. I know. Ive only just read this morning about Maíria Cahill and how she was raped. And for anyone else living under that rock, basically Mairia says there was an IRA investigation into the rape during which Adams told her that abusers can be so manipulative that sometimes the victims enjoy it. Of course, Adams denies this whole thing happened.

    Im not rubbishing her particular case or any other particular allegations from other people. But I sometimes wonder, Gerry Adams seems to be plagued by so much crap (even his own brother was accused of rape :rolleyes: )........ was he really that bad?

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  • #2
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Great set of gnashers though.


  • #3
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    BoJack Horseman wrote: »
    Great set of gnashers though.

    There shergars...


  • #4
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Do you trust Mr Adams?
    He is the only person on the planet who thinks he was not in the IRA.
    The man is a lier pure and simple


  • #5
    Creative Juices
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Creative Juices


    I actually would strongly consider voting SF #1 in 2016 for the first time ever. I would be very curious whether how they would handle power. However I will not vote for SF while Adams is leader. I like Mary Lou and Doherty but Adams is completely and utterly trustworthy. Most men with beards are the same! ;)


  • #6
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Creative Juices wrote: »
    I actually would strongly consider voting SF #1 in 2016 for the first time ever. I would be very curious whether how they would handle power. However I will not vote for SF while Adams is leader. I like Mary Lou and Doherty but Adams is completely and utterly trustworthy. Most men with beards are the same! ;)

    Voting them in out due to pure curiosity is a ridiculous attitude to take with your vote


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  • #7
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    gunny558 wrote: »
    But I sometimes wonder, Gerry Adams seems to be plagued by so much crap (even his own brother was accused of rape :rolleyes: )........ was he really that bad?

    His Brother was convicted of Rape. Of his own Daughter.

    Are you insinuating that the conviction was part of a conspiracy to blacken the flawless reputation of Saint Gerry :rolleyes:


  • #8
    gunny558
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭gunny558


    Winty wrote: »
    Do you trust Mr Adams?
    He is the only person on the planet who thinks he was not in the IRA.
    The man is a lier pure and simple

    Well he cant hardly admit to that now can he. He could end up losing his position to be replaced by someone else. How many people in SF would have the experience that he does.


  • #9
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    they were psychopathic murderers why are people surprised that they were raping kids as well?


  • #10
    gunny558
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭gunny558


    Skid X wrote: »
    His Brother was convicted of Rape. Of his own Daughter.

    Are you insinuating that the conviction was part of a conspiracy to blacken the flawless reputation of Saint Gerry :rolleyes:

    No that rape was fair enough... But I remember back in the early 90's there was rumours going around about a second rape..... but I never saw anyone come forward with proof thats what I was getting at.


  • #11
    Creative Juices
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Creative Juices


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Voting them in out due to pure curiosity is a ridiculous attitude to take with your vote

    I never said that was my only reason but I will not vote for FG/Lab/FF for several other reasons. The question is would SF put their money where their mouth is.


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  • #12
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    gunny558 wrote: »
    Well he cant hardly admit to that now can he. He could end up losing his position to be replaced by someone else. How many people in SF would have the experience that he does.

    Indeed, given his 'experience' and our penchant for combining Justice and Defence - he could serve as a minister who covers both portfolios.

    It seems he has experience with administering courts ;)

    ......and Óglaigh na hÉireann :D


  • #13
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭take everything


    Adams has been a liability for SF for the past while. He has no credibility


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Moved from AH. Please read the Politics forum charter before posting.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056544373


  • #15
    Barely There
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    gunny558 wrote: »
    No that rape was fair enough...

    WTF!?


  • #16
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    gunny558 wrote: »
    Well he cant hardly admit to that now can he. He could end up losing his position to be replaced by someone else. How many people in SF would have the experience that he does.


    Martin McGuinness has told the world the truth and he has the top job in N. Ireland so why can Mr Adams the man who put the nail in Jean's coffin


  • #17
    gunny558
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭gunny558


    Barely There wrote: »
    WTF!?


    Dont start. Ya know what I meant.


  • #18
    gunny558
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭gunny558


    Winty wrote: »
    Martin McGuinness has told the world the truth and he has the top job in N. Ireland so why can Mr Adams the man who put the nail in Jean's coffin

    And do you honestly think if Adams came out tonight on televsision and admitted he was in the IRA/army councel that he'd be the next Taoiseach?


  • #19
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    gunny558 wrote: »
    Ok I live under a rock. I know. Ive only just read this morning about Maíria Cahill and how she was raped by her grandfather who was a top IRA man.
    Her grand-uncle, Provisional IRA founder Joe Cahill, was not the man who allegedly raped her.


  • #20
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Winty wrote: »
    Martin McGuinness has told the world the truth and he has the top job in N. Ireland so why can Mr Adams the man who put the nail in Jean's coffin

    Didn't I read somewhere that he was arrested, questioned, and released without charge on that very issue.

    It was round abut the time that the local elections were upon us too.


  • #21
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Didn't I read somewhere that he was arrested, questioned, and released without charge on that very issue.

    Correct, its hard for the PSNI to make a case 30 years old without the help of members of the public who have not forgot what Adams can do if you cross him.


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  • #22
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,644 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    gunny558 wrote: »
    And do you honestly think if Adams came out tonight on televsision and admitted he was in the IRA/army councel that he'd be the next Taoiseach?

    Do you actually think he will be the next Taoiseach?


  • #23
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    gunny558 wrote: »
    And do you honestly think if Adams came out tonight on televsision and admitted he was in the IRA/army councel that he'd be the next Taoiseach?

    Worked for Martin why not Gerry


  • #24
    realweirdo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 974 ✭✭✭realweirdo


    Creative Juices wrote: »
    I actually would strongly consider voting SF #1 in 2016 for the first time ever. I would be very curious whether how they would handle power. However I will not vote for SF while Adams is leader. I like Mary Lou and Doherty but Adams is completely and utterly trustworthy. Most men with beards are the same! ;)

    You're joking here right? Can never tell with you.

    Sinn Fein are Sinn Fein. Many of them have murky pasts one way or another...while the newer generation still support Adams to the hilt. He aint going anywhere soon. They see politics as the continuation of a struggle by other means. Their populism might fool some.


  • #25
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Winty wrote: »
    Correct, its hard for the PSNI to make a case 30 years old without the help of members of the public who have not forgot what Adams can do if you cross him.

    So it was a complete waste of time even arresting him?

    (in the mouth of local elections)


  • #26
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,619 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    diomed wrote: »
    Her grand-uncle, Provisional IRA founder Joe Cahill, was not the man who allegedly raped her.

    I was thinking this. That initial post needs to be edited or removed pronto!


  • #27
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Voting them in out due to pure curiosity is a ridiculous attitude to take with your vote

    It's no more ridiculous than many of the reasons given by people who vote in Irish elections i.e. 'I'm voting Fine Gael because my family always voted for them'.

    To be honest about it Adams has told so many lies over the past few years I'm waiting for the moment when he categorically denies even being Gerry Adams. Luckily for him, all scandal dissipates eventually. The stuff about his niece was actually cringe-worthy such was the implausibility of his statements; like denying he knew that his paedophile brother was in Sinn Féin despite the fact he was running for the party officer board in Louth, one of the most important constituencies for SF and the place he is now TD for. Similarly he also denied that he knew Liam Adams was working in a youth centre in Beechmount in West Belfast; as if Gerry Adams' brother would go unnoticed ten minutes from SF's head office in an area where the Provos know everybody and everything.


  • #28
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,619 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    FTA69 wrote: »
    It's no more ridiculous than many of the reasons given by people who vote in Irish elections i.e. 'I'm voting Fine Gael because my family always voted for them'.

    To be honest about it Adams has told so many lies over the past few years I'm waiting for the moment when he categorically denies even being Gerry Adams. Luckily for him, all scandal dissipates eventually. The stuff about his niece was actually cringe-worthy such was the implausibility of his statements; like denying he knew that his paedophile brother was in Sinn Féin despite the fact he was running for the party officer board in Louth, one of the most important constituencies for SF and the place he is now TD for. Similarly he also denied that he knew Liam Adams was working in a youth centre in Beechmount in West Belfast; as if Gerry Adams' brother would go unnoticed ten minutes from SF's head office in an area where the Provos know everybody and everything.

    This is why I would believe this lady in this particular instance. I see no reason for her to target him with a lie.


  • #29
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    Winty wrote: »
    Do you trust Mr Adams?
    He is the only person on the planet who thinks he was not in the IRA.
    The man is a lier pure and simple

    The Gardaí, RUC, British Army MI5 etc were all trying like crazy to prove he was a member of the IRA, and not one could produce any evidence which would stand up in court.

    Everyone on the planet thinking he was in the IRA doesn't prove him a liar.


  • #30
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    The Gardaí, RUC, British Army MI5 etc were all trying like crazy to prove he was a member of the IRA, and not one could produce any evidence which would stand up in court.

    Everyone on the planet thinking he was in the IRA doesn't prove him a liar.

    Spot on. It was never publically proven he was in the IRA, but you'd be a fool to believe that he wasn't.


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  • #31
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    FTA69 wrote: »
    Spot on. It was never publically proven he was in the IRA, but you'd be a fool to believe that he wasn't.


    I really couldn't care less whether he was or wasn't, and consider it to be irrelevant.

    However, a lot of people seem to think that all republicans of a certain age were all members of the IRA, however several stayed entirely on the political side of the struggle; Current TD's O' Caoláin and Colreavy being examples.


  • #32
    Creative Juices
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Creative Juices


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    I really couldn't care less whether he was or wasn't, and consider it to be irrelevant.

    The difference is we know he was in the IRA but we cannot understand why he wont admit it like McGuinness did. A continuous lie does not inspire admiration or trust.


  • #33
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    Creative Juices wrote: »
    The difference is we know he was in the IRA but we cannot understand why he wont admit it like McGuinness did. A continuous lie does not inspire admiration or trust.

    Until somebody can prove he was in it then there's no grounds to label him a continuous liar


  • #34
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    By dropping her case against the alleged rapist she has done her case and her chance of justice tremendous harm.
    This will just become another round of hurling unproveable allegations.


  • #35
    Creative Juices
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Creative Juices


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    Until somebody can prove he was in it then there's no grounds to label him a continuous liar

    Ah stop, we all know. He is a liar.

    He was an IRA member and he might be liable for 2 years prison (under legislation that followed the GFA). It would be highly unlikely that Mr Adams would be prosecuted or that a judge would impose a custodial sentence.


  • #36
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Tip of the iceberg for Adams and his cohorts in regards how many other stories of this nature are due to come out. The parallels with this story regarding the IRA/Sinn Fein and the Church are glaring. I suppose this is an appropriate time to use the Sinn Fein/IRA term. Both are like conjoined twins in this instance. No hiding this fact.


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  • #37
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    Creative Juices wrote: »
    Ah stop, we all know. He is a liar.

    He was an IRA member and he might be liable for 2 years prison (under legislation that followed the GFA). It would be highly unlikely that Mr Adams would be prosecuted or that a judge would impose a custodial sentence.

    But how do you know? There's absolutely no evidence.

    If there was there's no doubt he'd be prosecuted. They'd love to get him.

    I like to deal in facts and evidence, not hearsay and opinions.


  • #38
    Villain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,951 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Creative Juices wrote: »
    Ah stop, we all know. He is a liar.

    I don't know he is a liar, I suspect he might be but I don't know it


  • #39
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,714 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    what a virtuous bunch of people who can tell if someone is lying, without ever meeting or talking to him directly. amazing.


  • #40
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,714 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    Gossip seems to be the evidence when it comes to Adams et al
    Henlars67 wrote: »
    But how do you know? There's absolutely no evidence.

    If there was there's no doubt he'd be prosecuted. They'd love to get him.

    I like to deal in facts and evidence, not hearsay and opinions.


  • #41
    raymon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,774 ✭✭✭raymon


    maccored wrote: »
    what a virtuous bunch of people who can tell if someone is lying, without ever meeting or talking to him directly. amazing.

    Im pretty sure he is lying . Don't need to meet him


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  • #42
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    I know a Siobhan O'Hanlon (her cousin) is involved in this, is Ellis O'Hanlon related and involved in this too?
    She is doing an awful lot of tweeting about it.


  • #43
    Creative Juices
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭Creative Juices


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    But how do you know? There's absolutely no evidence.

    If there was there's no doubt he'd be prosecuted. They'd love to get him.

    I like to deal in facts and evidence, not hearsay and opinions.

    Sure. I have done this argument before and I am tired of it, let me just be happy in my own "beliefs" so...in any case I will only vote for SF after he is gone.


  • #44
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    I know a Siobhan O'Hanlon (her cousin) is involved in this, is Ellis O'Hanlon related and involved in this too?
    She is doing an awful lot of tweeting about it.

    Siobhan (RIP) is Eilis' sister. Their mother was Joe Cahill's sister.

    Siobhán and Eilis didn't speak, even after Siobhan was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

    Eilis is a bitter woman with an axe to grind


  • #45
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,714 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    he must be then, since you are 'pretty sure he is lying'. Im sure you have all the relevant facts at hand from which to make your decision (not).
    raymon wrote: »
    Im pretty sure he is lying . Don't need to meet him


  • #46
    raymon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,774 ✭✭✭raymon


    maccored wrote: »
    he must be then, since you are 'pretty sure he is lying'. Im sure you have all the relevant facts at hand from which to make your decision (not).

    I listened to the woman's account. It makes sense. Adams was asked to meet her because she had been allegedly raped by a senior IRA volunteer. Adams agreed to meet her.

    Adams now says that they didn't discuss the fact that she was raped.

    it just doesn't add up - he is lying


  • #47
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    Siobhan (RIP) is Eilis' sister. Their mother was Joe Cahill's sister.

    Siobhán and Eilis didn't speak, even after Siobhan was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

    Eilis is a bitter woman with an axe to grind

    I had forgotten about the O'Hanlon connection, the real picture is emerging now.


  • #48
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    Siobhan (RIP) is Eilis' sister. Their mother was Joe Cahill's sister.

    Siobhán and Eilis didn't speak, even after Siobhan was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

    Eilis is a bitter woman with an axe to grind

    She seems to be very much behind Maria in this. Interesting.


  • #49
    FTA69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Creative Juices wrote: »
    The difference is we know he was in the IRA but we cannot understand why he wont admit it like McGuinness did. A continuous lie does not inspire admiration or trust.

    McGuinness was convicted of IRA membership in the early 1970s and so has to admit he was a member of it really. Adams was never convicted of membership. However, McGuinness also says he left the IRA in the mid-1970s, a story which is also pretty unlikely.

    Personally, I agree with Henlars above. Whether Adams was in the IRA is largely irrelevant, it matters no more than Rabbitte's and Gilmore's associations with the Official IRA back in the 1980s.


  • #50
    yipeeeee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,605 ✭✭✭yipeeeee


    Vincent brown last night, the height of hypocrisy.

    Saying the dogs in the street knew about Adams and this rape case just like the states cover up of the catholic church.

    Well Vincent if the dogs in the street knew about the catholic churches abuses why didn't you as a reporter blow the lid on the whole affair?????


  • #51
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    I had forgotten about the O'Hanlon connection, the real picture is emerging now.

    Siobhán, who by all accounts was hated by her sister Eilis, was a close friend of Gerry Adams.


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