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Sinn Fein chief testifies vs. brother in rape case

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams is testifying in a Belfast court against his brother, who is charged with raping his own daughter.

The long-delayed case has raised awkward questions for the Irish nationalist party, because Adams admits he knew for decades about the criminal allegations but didn’t tell police. That reflected Sinn Fein‘s traditional hostility to law enforcement agencies in the British territory of Northern Ireland.

Adams testified Monday that his niece Aine told him of abuse allegations in 1987 when she was 14. He said he confronted his brother in 2000, when his brother admitted one act of abuse.

Liam Adams denies 10 counts of rape, indecent assault and gross indecency from 1977 to 1983. He fled to the Republic of Ireland in 2009 but was extradited in 2011.

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Today in History for 14th March 2013

Historical Events

1869 – Defeat of Titokowaru.
1946 – Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1980 – 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
2003 – Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
2005 – Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

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Famous Birthdays

1782 – Thomas Hart Benton, (rep), “Old Bullion”
1884 – Winter Haynes Watts, composer
1933 – René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
1951 – Rick Dees, radio disc jock (KIIS LA)
1958 – Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder (Oly-1988)
1972 – Aris Brimanis, Cleveland, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)

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Famous Deaths

1757 – John Byng, English Admiral executed by firing squad at 52 for for neglecting his duty in defence of Minorca
1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
1981 – Ken Barrington, cricketer (82 Tests for England, 6806 runs), dies
1983 – Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55
1986 – Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80
1996 – Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at HistoryOrb.Com – This Day in History

Sinn Fein says sorry for IRA killing of Irish cops

Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams has apologized for past Irish Republican Army killings of police officers and soldiers in the Republic of Ireland.

Adams expressed remorse during a parliamentary debate Tuesday about last week’s fatal shooting of a policeman in the border town of Dundalk. Detective Adrian Donohoe was shot in the head as he tried to stop a gang robbing a cash collection van outside a bank. An IRA faction based in neighboring Northern Ireland is suspected of involvement.

Donohoe was the first Republic of Ireland policeman to be fatally shot since 1996, when IRA members ambushed another cash-carrying van in Limerick and killed police guard Jerry McCabe.

Adams apologized to McCabe’s widow and the families of other Irish security-force members slain by the IRA.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News

Woman at center of case against alleged IRA commander found dead

Police say a veteran Irish Republican Army member at the center of allegations against Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been found dead at her home.

Dolours Price had alleged that Adams was her IRA commander in Belfast in the early 1970s and was involved in ordering several Catholic civilians to be abducted, executed and buried in secret.

The Northern Ireland police have been seeking her tape-recorded interviews from an audio archive in Boston College, a case expected to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 61-year-old Price was imprisoned in 1973 for being part of the IRA‘s first car-bomb attack on London. She received early parole in 1980.

Ireland‘s police force said in a statement Thursday she was found dead at her home in Malahide north of Dublin.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News

Irishwoman at center of IRA tapes story found dead

Police say a veteran Irish Republican Army member at the center of allegations against Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been found dead at her home.

Dolours Price had alleged that Adams was her IRA commander in Belfast in the early 1970s and was involved in ordering several Catholic civilians to be abducted, executed and buried in secret.

The Northern Ireland police have been seeking her tape-recorded interviews from an audio archive in Boston College, a case expected to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 61-year-old Price was imprisoned in 1973 for being part of the IRA‘s first car-bomb attack on London. She received early parole in 1980.

Ireland‘s police force said in a statement Thursday she was found dead at her home in Malahide north of Dublin.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News