IRA chief accuses Adams beyond grave

A former IRA commander has posthumously accused Gerry Adams of being responsible for some Northern Ireland’s worst atrocities, leads the Irish News. In a series of interviews given before his death in 2008, Brendan “The Dark” Hughes alleges that the Sinn Féin president ordered the 1972 killing and burial of Jean McConville, a mother-of-10 shot suspected of passing on intelligence to the British Army. Adams was also “one of the IRA leaders who planned and approved the Bloody Friday bombing of Belfast in 1972 that killed nine people, including two children,” the Belfast daily reports. Adams always denied involvement in McConville’s execution and leadership of the IRA. However, Hughes is quoted as saying that “for him to sit in his plush office in Westminster… and deny it, I mean it’s like Hitler denying that there was ever a Holocaust.”