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Death of Liam Adams

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https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2019/0225/1032665-liam-adams/

Good riddance.

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Purgative

Delighted.

KevRossi

Will Gerry carry his coffin?
Will he get a tricolour draped over it?
Will he get a guard of honour?
Will he get a salvo fired over his grave?

Fcuking scumbag, hope the 'good republican' died in agony.

[Deleted User]

Going home to hell.

brainfreeze

KevRossi wrote: »

Will Gerry carry his coffin?
Will he get a tricolour draped over it?
Will he get a guard of honour?
Will he get a salvo fired over his grave?

Fcuking scumbag, hope the 'good republican' died in agony.

no, no no and no?

Never heard anyone refer to Liam Adams as a 'good republican', not even his own brother, you are thinking of Slab Murphy.

mad muffin

Rot in hell you filthy bastard :mad:

vicwatson

Purgative wrote: »

Delighted.

Well, in fairness, it was a matter of when, not if

Mrsmum

Must be hard for the family when someone like him dies. Like they might want to have nothing to do with him but they still have to bury him and that.

Uncharted

Mrsmum wrote: »

Must be hard for the family when someone like him dies. Like they might want to have nothing to do with him but they still have to bury him and that.

Have to ?? Pffft.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

KevRossi wrote: »

Will Gerry carry his coffin?
Will he get a tricolour draped over it?
Will he get a guard of honour?
Will he get a salvo fired over his grave?

Fcuking scumbag, hope the 'good republican' died in agony.

First one - Gerry's call, not one I'd accept if I was in his shoes.

Others - has he done anything to actually earn this in the first place even before his crimes are taken into account?

JohnnyFlash

Gerry Adams knew about his brother’s activities. A morally repugnant individual in his own right.

Purgative

vicwatson wrote: »

Well, in fairness, it was a matter of when, not if

Isn't that just one of life's truisms?

Gael23

This is not a newsworthy story.

He should be cremated and then off with the rubbish

orourkeda1977

I stopped after the "raping his daughter" bit

blanch152

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

First one - Gerry's call, not one I'd accept if I was in his shoes.

Others - has he done anything to actually earn this in the first place even before his crimes are taken into account?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/25/liam-adams-brother-sinn-fein-leader-gerry-adams-dies

According to the Guardian - "The former IRA member" - Liam Adams falls into the normal category of good republican.

They also had this to say: "The case piled pressure on Gerry Adams to explain why he did not alert authorities when he learned of the abuse in 1987.

Liam Adams admitted the abuse to his brother in 2000 and went on to work in youth clubs, including one in west Belfast, the constituency of Gerry Adams, who was then an MP.

Aine said the politician brushed off her request to keep her father away from children. “Gerry told me that was Liam’s way of trying to make up to the community for what he done to me.”"

Wonder will Gerry sue them for that.

At the same time, this article sets out what Gerry did and didn't know about his brother, and also what he said at different times.

https://sluggerotoole.com/2013/10/30/liam-adams-his-brother-and-the-real-damage-to-his-party/

klaaaz

blanch152 wrote: »

According to the Guardian - "The former IRA member" - Liam Adams falls into the normal category of good republican.

They also had this to say: "The case piled pressure on Gerry Adams to explain why he did not alert authorities when he learned of the abuse in 1987.

Those same authorities were actively trying to kill every member of the nationalist community back then, you left that part out as the RUC and their associate agencies were not impartial. If it happened now with the PSNI in place, the creep would have had been behind bars pronto.

Your Face

Shinnerbots - assemble !

RacoonQueen

Mrsmum wrote: »

Must be hard for the family when someone like him dies. Like they might want to have nothing to do with him but they still have to bury him and that.

No they don't? They can just send him off to be cremated or have him put into an unmarked grave. They don't have to commemorate him.

mad muffin

Your Face wrote: »

Shinnerbots - assemble !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkdry54C0oU

blanch152

klaaaz wrote: »

Those same authorities were actively trying to kill every member of the nationalist community back then, you left that part out as the RUC and their associate agencies were not impartial. If it happened now with the PSNI in place, the creep would have had been behind bars pronto.

What you are saying is that Gerry Adams put the republican cause ahead of the safety of his own niece and that of other children. Some people may feel that this is fair enough and that the cause was so important that child abusers could be let go free and work in youth clubs.

Other people, like me, are rightly horrified by the failure of Gerry Adams in the area of child sex abuse and believe that no political cause was worth protecting child abusers.

We are allowed have different political opinions on the issue.

facehugger99

A morally repugnant individual from a morally repugnant family.

Hopefully his brother joins him in a fiery after-life before too long.

klaaaz

blanch152 wrote: »

What you are saying is that Gerry Adams put the republican cause ahead of the safety of his own niece and that of other children. Some people may feel that this is fair enough and that the cause was so important that child abusers could be let go free and work in youth clubs.

Other people, like me, are rightly horrified by the failure of Gerry Adams in the area of child sex abuse and believe that no political cause was worth protecting child abusers.

We are allowed have different political opinions on the issue.

Nope, the "cause" was not precedent. If the nationalist community had an acceptable impartial police force which was not trying to kill and perform harm on them on a daily basis, things would have turned out alot different. Since the GFA with the acceptance of the PSNI in nationalist areas, there has been normal policing like you are used to seeing from the Garda down here.

facehugger99 wrote: »

A morally repugnant individual from a morally repugnant family.

Hopefully his brother joins him in a fiery after-life before too long.

Is that you Rev. Ian back from the dead?

paw patrol

klaaaz wrote: »

Is that you Rev. Ian back from the dead?

the rev. ian wouldn't come out with such rubbish.

[Deleted User]

Sinister individual, and I'm not undermining anything anyone has said on the thread, I just find it oddly superstitious when people jump on someone's grave.

It probably makes us feel good for a moment, but it's a bit like jumping up and down when your team scores a goal or a try. It makes no difference to anything.

Im glad he was served some kind of justice in his lifetime, that's about as much as we can hope for. If it had been up to me, I'd have made him live even longer with the stigma of his actions.

blanch152

klaaaz wrote: »

Nope, the "cause" was not precedent. If the nationalist community had an acceptable impartial police force which was not trying to kill and perform harm on them on a daily basis, things would have turned out alot different. Since the GFA with the acceptance of the PSNI in nationalist areas, there has been normal policing like you are used to seeing from the Garda down here.

You have your opinion that what Gerry did was understandable and acceptable and that IRA law was enough. Many bishops took the same attitude when it came to canon law and child abuse within the Catholic Church. As I said, you are entitled to that opinion.

However, I take the view that what Gerry did was completely unacceptable and going as far as thanking Liam in his book was completely disgusting. We all have our standards. There is no excuse that I can accept for what Gerry Adams did in relation to child abuse, actively supported by the rest of Sinn Fein and the IRA.

Church on Tuesday

A conundrum the Boards.ie over for the armchair republicans this.

klaaaz

blanch152 wrote: »

You have your opinion that what Gerry did was understandable and acceptable and that IRA law was enough. Many bishops took the same attitude when it came to canon law and child abuse within the Catholic Church. As I said, you are entitled to that opinion.

However, I take the view that what Gerry did was completely unacceptable and going as far as thanking Liam in his book was completely disgusting. We all have our standards. There is no excuse that I can accept for what Gerry Adams did in relation to child abuse, actively supported by the rest of Sinn Fein and the IRA.

There was no acceptable police force in nationalist areas back then, and all nationalists did not support the IRA. NI was not like a peaceful state like what we have, it was a state in perpetual violent and non-violent civil conflict. It's a very long stretch to connect child abuse to SF, really?

FrancieBrady

I have had many disputes about this man on here. A man I have condemned from the start. I condemn him again for what he did.
I have basic humanity for politicians of all creeds and backgrounds caught up in family situations and the problems they can cause and I don't comment on them if I am satisfied that they would not make the same mistakes again.

At one point we were led to be believe by 'upstanding politicians' like Kenny, Martin, Regina Doherty that SF was infested by sex abusers and paedophiles but of course the huge numbers claimed never materialised in reality, but those upstanding politicians knew what they were doing as did certain posters here. The old, throw enough dirt and some of it will stick trick.
I see some of them back to throw some more dirt in a valiant effort to finally get Gerry by dancing on the grave of a man whose victim they never really cared about to begin with. Like The RUC they are more interested in Gerry Adams than anything else. Pathetic.

Atoms for Peace

Your Face wrote: »

Shinnerbots - assemble !

Nobody in the Republican movement is defending the douchebag.

blanch152

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Nobody in the Republican movement is defending the douchebag.

They protected him and let him work in youth clubs.

Mysterypunter

Good news story of the day, too many of them scumbags still prancing around as if they did nothing wrong