Liams Adams convicted, Gerry Adams TD, Gerry Adams Snr, Sinn Fein, Belfast Court, child abuse, child rape

Liam Adams Guilty child rape

When Gerry Adams TD was first confronted about the fact that he had concealed the rape of his 4 year old niece Aine Adams, Adams said that he had believed Aine when she said she had been raped by her Father, Liam Adams, and Gerry Adams TD went on to say that after he discovered his brother Liam was a serial child rapist he had no further contact with him. However, Gerry Adams TD was and is a liar of unprecedented magnitude, not only had Gerry Adams TD concealed the rape of 4 year old Aine, but Gerry Adams TD had also concealed the knowledge that his own Father, Gerry Adams Snr was a serial child rapist who had used the ‘republican’ movement to access and rape children, Gerry Adams Snr was also an active RUC informer and this was known to the PIRA leadership before Gerry Adams Snr died.

The truth has now been fully exposed in a Belfast Courtroom, where Liam Adams has been found guilty of being a serial child rapist, Liam Adams was a senior member of both the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein, he was promoted in both organisations even after he was outed as a serial child rapist. Gerry Adams TD helped his serial rapist brother set up home in Dundalk where he had access to countless children and in particular to young children in the families off Sinn Fein members, Sinn Fein members who trusted Liam Adams as Gerry Adams had given him the stamp of approval, knowing well that his brother was a child rapist. Gerry Adams TD was parachuted into Dundalk and claimed time and again to locals that the child rape charges against Liam were part of a Brit conspiracy to undermine Gerry Adams TD. With all his bluster and lies, Gerry Adams has finally been exposed as a man prepared to do anything, including conceal the rape of children, to protect his lucrative political career.

Liams Adams convicted, child abuse

Liam Adams has been convicted of all charges relating to the sexual abuse of his daughter Áine.

Adams was found guilty by an 11 - 1 majority verdict by the jury at Belfast Crown Court this afternoon.

Adams (58), from Bernagh Drive in west Belfast, denied 10 charges of sexual assault against his daughter Áine, now aged 40 – three of rape, three of gross indecency and four of indecent assault.

The assaults took place over a six-year period beginning in 1977 when Áine Adams was aged four.

Gerry Adams TD canvasing with his Brother Liam Adams for Sinn Fein (This is after Gerry Adams TD is aware and accepts that Liam Adams has raped his 4 year old daughter)

Liam Adams has been convicted of raping his then 4 year old daughter Aine, his crimes were concealed by his brother Gerry Adams TD. Gerry Adams TD knowing that his brother Liam had raped a 4 year old child, helped his brother Liam set up home in the Irish Republic, in Dundalk, where Liam Adams had open access to hundreds of children. Sinn Fein leaders including Gerry Adams TD protected the serial child rapist Liam Adams from apprehension or prosecution, and Gerry Adams TD only admitted his role in this crime when it was clear that Sinn Fein and the PIRA could no longer keep her silent.

In the picture below serial child rapist Gerry Adams Snr, Gerry Adams TD who concealed his Father's crimes, Liam Adams convicted for raping his 4 year old daughter, Gerry Adams TD who concealed his crimes, Martin McGuinness who helped Liam Adams establish himself in Dundalk, County Louth, after it was known that Liam Adams had been identified as someone who had raped a 4 year old child. Martin McGuinness wanted to be President of Ireland.

Gerry Adams TD

Gerry Adams Snr was also a serial child rapist, who along with other members of Sinn Fein/Provisional IRA in Belfast picked working class children up from the streets to rape them in derelict houses and sheds in west Belfast. Gerry Adams TD has admitted that he knew his Father was a serial child rapist, however, in order to protect his lucrative political career Gerry Adams TD afforded his Father a full-style PIRA funeral in west Belfast, the final insult to the many dozens of children raped by the evil Adams Family.

However, Gerry Adams TD was not the only senior member of Sinn Fein to offer succour to serial child rapist Liam Adams, want to be President of Ireland and MI6 Agent Martin McGuinness also helped Liam Adams to settle into his new Sinn Fein role in Dundalk, County Louth, as this picture clearly shows, McGuinness and Adams were as thick as thieves and therefore there is no doubt that McGuinness knew that Liam Adams was a serial child rapist.

Liam Adams Prosecuted by David McDowell

The claim came from prosecuting lawyer David McDowell as he closed the case against 58-year-old Liam Adams.

Mr McDowell told the Belfast Crown Court jury of nine men and three women that "the truth is king in this case".

"We suggest members of the jury that when you look at the truth, quite literally, you could not make it up," said the lawyer, adding that such was the evidence of Áine Adams, "no ordinary member of the public who has not been abused could not have come up with it."

Defence QC Eilis McDermott

Adams' defence QC Eilis McDermott counter claimed, however, that both Áine and her mother Sarah were proven liars whose evidence "doesn't hold water".

"The fact that the witnesses are prepared to swear by Almighty God to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and then lie to you [over dealings with the police], must mean in a case like this, that you cannot accept the truthfulness of any part of their evidence because it's all you have got," declared the lawyer.

Liam Adams, from Bearnagh Drive in west Belfast, is charged with ten offences including rape, indecent assault and gross indecency against his daughter more than 30 years ago on dates between March 1977 and March 1983.

He denies all charges.

Aine Adams

His daughter 40-year-old Áine Adams has testified that between the ages of four and nine, her father raped and abused her at various addresses the family lived in - including when her mother was in hospital giving birth to her brother and when she was in bed beside her brother.

The jury have heard that although the allegations were brought to police attention in 1987, six months after a family confrontation in Buncrana, the complaint was withdrawn.

Sarah Campbell

Adams' ex-wife Sarah Campbell said that was because she felt the police were more interested in her husband's activities and associates, recounting how one social worker told her the police had asked for Mrs Campbell to meet them in the city centre.

Those claims have been refuted by social workers.

The allegations were raised again in 2007 and it was then that Liam Adams was arrested and interviewed.

The jury have also heard that when initially asked about being confronted by his wife, daughter and his brother Gerry Adams, Liam Adams denied it happened.

Giving evidence on his own behalf when he repeatedly and consistently denied the allegations, Adams claimed he lied about the alleged meeting because it had been "drummed into us that we don't talk about Gerry Adams".

"It had been drummed into us since I was a young person, since the Troubles started that you don't talk about Gerry Adams - you don't talk about him in the barracks, to the British Army, in the media or even as you get older and socialise, you don't talk about Gerry Adams," claimed Liam Adams.

He labelled the allegations against him as "rubbish, absolute rubbish".

On Monday, Mr McDowell said while doubts would likely be cast on the claims for why the allegations were not pursued in the mid-1980s, he suggested to the jury that they use their "common sense".

He suggested that it would be "perfectly credible" that the police would have been interested in not just the allegations of abuse - but also had an "unhealthy interest...in big Gerry" and added that while there were no records of any social worker passing on a police message, "that's the things about off the record conversations, they're not recorded."

Aine Adams credibility

The truthfulness of Áine's account, said Mr McDowell, lay in the details of her evidence because if it had not happened, "how could she come up with this?"

If Áine had not been subjected to it, suggested the lawyer, "she could not have told you of the turmoil in the mind of the child."

He further declared to the jury that looking at the evidence and in applying common sense and their life experience, they would be "firmly convinced" of Adams' guilt.

During her closing remarks, Ms McDermott conceded that Adams, contrary to his solicitor's advice, had lied to police about the meeting in Buncrana, Co Donegal but that he had given his reasons for that.

"It may seem to you a good reason or a bad reason but it's his reason," said the lawyer, adding that the jury should apply their common sense when looking at that aspect of Adams' evidence.

Liam Adams the evidence

She urged the jury to look at the evidence of the social workers who testified that no such message was ever passed onto Áine and her mother from the police, claiming their account "is just patently not right".

Describing the jury as the "supreme judges of fact," Ms McDermott told them that only two people "in the whole world" really knew what had happened - Adams and his daughter Áine.

"Look at the evidence and ask: 'Is that enough, is that enough to satisfy me beyond reasonable doubt so that I'm firmly convinced of the guilt of a person?'," said the lawyer, adding that Áine and her mother could not be relied on.

Áine's sister Sinead had given evidence, telling the jury that her father allegedly confessed to her that he had abused Áine during a reconciliation meeting in December 2002, a meeting which was followed up by regular visits before things broke down again around ten months later.

On Monday, however, Ms McDermott said that not only had Adams denied any such confession, she put to the jury that if a father had just confessed to you that he abused your sister "you would not be able to wait to get out the door....you would not go anywhere near him".

She also highlighted the fact that although the Crown say he is a "monster" - who first raped his daughter when she was around five - none of his other three daughters or any child he worked with in various youth clubs and projects had ever made a similar complaint.

"We say to you that the only proper verdicts that you can return on these counts are verdicts of not guilty," declared Ms McDermott.

Once trial judge Deputy Recorder Judge Corinne Philpott QC has directed the jury in how to apply the law to each of the charges, the jury will retire to consider their verdicts.

The jury have been told their deliberations will begin on Tuesday.

The trial continues. At hearing.

Priory Hall Dublin, Tom McFeely, Criminal Assets Bureau, NAMA, Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams TD

Priory Hall Dublin, Tom McFeely, Criminal Assets Bureau

Sinn Fein Bagman Tom McFeely left €200,000 in his Mansion, the Sinn Fein Bagman handed over large amounts of cash to Sinn Fein in the run up to the General Election in 2011 which resulted in 14 Sinn Fein TDs getting elected. McFeely’s fortune was made off the back of good and decent hard working people who have now been left homeless after being evacuated from their Priory Hall Homes.

A search by the Criminal Assets Bureau of the former home of controversial Priory Hall developer Thomas McFeely is continuing this afternoon after officers found €60,000 in cash just days after a plumber found €140,000.

The €60,000 find was made yesterday, just days after a plumber carrying out renovations for the new owners of the luxury property on Dublin’s exclusive Ailesbury Road in Ballsbridge, found €140,000 in €50 notes hidden in the bathroom.

It is understood the latest haul, which was made up of €50 notes wrapped in rubber bands and plastic bags, was also found in the bathroom.

Officers from CAB were this afternoon continuing to search the property, once valued at €15 million but sold last year for €2.5 million.

The gardens and drains of the extensive red brick property were searched throughout today with teams of gardai seen removing bags from inside the home and using heavy tools including long handled shovels, axes and ladders.

Mr McFeely, said to have debts of some €200 million, was adjudicated bankrupt at the High Court here in August 2012.

After a legal battle, his home was then repossessed by the National Assets Management Agency as part of its efforts to enforce a €9.5 million judgment obtained against him over unpaid loans.

After the €140,00 was found on September 20th, it was lodged in a bank account under the control of the official assignee in bankruptcy pending a decision on what should happen to it. The €60,000 is expected to be similarly lodged.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said today Nama would be interested in the discoveries after taking control of Mr McFeely’s loans.

“I understand that an inch-by-inch survey, an investigation, has been carried out both in this residence and on the grounds of the premises to see if there is any more here,” Mr Kenny said.

“I think all of that smacks of what happened during the so-called Tiger years, when you had profligacy and greed and money sloshing around in so many places, that this is further evidence of what happened.”

Mr McFeely - a former IRA hunger-striker - was involved in the development of Priory Hall in Donaghmede which was evacuated almost two years ago after Dublin City Council raised concerns in the High Court about fire safety and other matters.

About 180 families had to leave their homes and many continue to campaign for suitable alternative accommodation.

Mr McFeely avoided going back behind bars last July after successfully overturning a contempt of court judgment. The developer appealed against a judgment that he broke court orders.

He had been ordered by the High Court in Dublin to carry out remedial works at Priory Hall, but was sentenced and fined when he did not.

Barristers for Mr McFeely appealed it was impossible for their client to comply with orders because he had been evicted from the site.

Sinn Fein Budget proposals, budget 2013, budget 2014, gerry adams td, economy, finance

Sinn Fein Budget Proposals based on Flawed Methodology

Sinn Fein’s Flawed Methodology has seen the party make a u-turn on its wealth tax proposals. Sinn Fein were accused of ‘plucking figures from the sky’ when the party suggested that up to €800 million could be collected from their wealth tax proposals, many of Ireland’s senior economists have suggested that Sinn Fein remains stuck in the mud of protectionism economics as espoused by former Sinn Fein President, Ruari O’Bradaigh (RIP).

In recent times Sinn Fein have been embarrassed when it was shown that Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams TD had flown to America to enjoy Private Healthcare treatment, while his own constituents in Louth languished on hospital trolleys.

Sinn Fein’s wealth Tax u-turn

Sinn Féin will drop its calls for a wealth tax in next month’s budget as part of a dramatic departure from its approach to balance the State’s finances.

The principle of a wealth tax of 1 per cent on assets above €1 million has been an integral part of Sinn Féin’s pre-budget submission since 2010 along with a third 48 per cent tax rate and a cap of €100,000 on public sector salaries.

It has claimed that a wealth tax could yield €800 million to the State each year.

However, the reliability of the party’s figures was questioned by tax expert and barrister Suzanne Kelly who cast doubts on the sources of its calculations and the amount of tax that would be raised.

It led to scrutiny and criticism of the policy from its opponents.

The party has responded by leaving out any proposals for a wealth tax in its pre-budget submission, due out this month.

Sinn Fein Finance Spokesman Pearse Doherty

Finance spokesman Pearse Doherty said the party is still committed to a wealth tax but will not include it in its submission this year. He said Sinn Féin will deal with wealth assets as a special category, with all revenue generated being ring-fenced for job creation.

He said the decision was made because it was not possible to say with any certainty at present how much would be raised by a wealth tax. He said definite figures would only become available when the Central Statistics Office began collating data for personal wealth next year.

“It’s not disputed that a wealth tax will bring in hundreds of millions of euro,” said Mr Doherty, but he pointed out that estimates varied from €400 million to €800 million.

“Instead of putting the measure in and leaving ourselves open to the accusation that this is not costed, we will [leave it out] and rely on other measures to reduce the deficit to the target amount.”

Mr Doherty said the party’s submission would propose reducing the deficit by “slightly over €2 billion”, somewhat short of the €3.1 billion being pressed for by elements in Fine Gael and by the troika.

He asserted this figure would be sufficient to meet international obligations, but would also encourage jobs and growth.

Sinn Fein Property TAX

Sinn Féin’s opposition to the property tax will mean it will have to find €500 million in alternative measures.

Mr Doherty accepted that this will be a tough challenge. He said the focus was on fairness, protecting the public services, jobs, emigration and ensuring youth employment.

The third rate of tax of 48 per cent for those earning over €100,000 would be a key component, but he said the party was varying its policy of a cap of €100,000 on public salaries.

“It was a blunt instrument that was introduced as an emergency measure during the crisis. We have a more considered approach that is conscious of what happened in the Haddington Road Agreement [on public sector pay]. We are introducing the first step of that. There will be grades of reduction for those earning above €100,000,” he said.

It is expected the party will also propose cuts in politicians salaries, another red herring.

Abortion Bill, Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams TD, Peadar Toibin TD

Abortion Bill, Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams TD, Peadar Toibin TD

Peadar Toibin TD has said he will vote against the Abortion Bill that will allow for the intentional Killing of unborn children. However, Gerry Adams TD and Sin Fein Leader, who was recently accused of concealing the rape of his 4 year old niece Aine Tyrrell in order to protect his lucrative political career, has said Sinn Fein would view any such move by Peadar Tobin TD as a serious breach of party rules.

The majority of Politicians are guided by the Party Whip System, which means that they must follow the party-line like sheep or be sent into the political wilderness, however, Peadar Toibin TD has shown time and again that he will not be brow beaten on matters  of personal and moral consciousness.

Sinn Féin has said it would be a serious breach of party rules for any TD to vote against the party position on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill.

Party leader Gerry Adams said the bill was currently being considered and that a decision would be made in the coming days.

He said the party’s position on the issue is clear and the Government “needs to legislate in line with the X Case to protect pregnant women when their lives are at risk”.

He added that legal certainty must be given to medical practitioners.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Prime Time last night, Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóbín said that he would be voting against the bill.

He said the issue was bigger than him and “any problems that I face over this pale into contrast with the difficulties mothers face and unborn children will have.”

The Government published the bill this week after it was approved by Cabinet.

One doctor will be required to certify that a termination is justified in the case of medical emergencies.

Two doctors will have to certify where there is a physical threat to the life of the mother, and three in cases of suicidal ideation.

Those three doctors will include the woman's obstetrician and two psychiatrists, including one specialist with experience of dealing with the mental health of pregnant women.

Gerry Adams td, sinn fein, healthcare, private healthcare, medical expenses, tax exemption, American healthcare, USA healthcare

Adams Private Healthcare a Pain in the Assets

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is examining whether any tax is due on an American businessman’s payment of medical expenses for him in the US. Initially Gerry Adams TD had explained his private medical care treatment a sbeing something he had paid for out of his own pocket, however, it has now emerged that the $30,000 BILL was picked up by provo cheer leader BILL Flynn. While dozens of Irish people lay on hospital trolleys in the Louth constituency that Adams allegedly represents, Adams was being treated to Private Healthcare in the USA.

This writing appeared on the walls in Dundalk after it was revealed that Gerry Adams TD had protected his child rapist brother Liam Dominic Adams.

Gerry Adams TD who criticised the Government for supporting private Healthcare is again exposed as a hypocrite.

Bill Flynn, former chief of life insurance giant Mutual of America, is estimated to have paid €30,000 late last year for Mr Adams’s prostate procedure.

The Sinn Féin leader, who is TD for Louth, is tax-resident in the State, according to a party spokesman.

The Irish Observer asked yesterday whether Mr Adams planned to seek an exemption from gift tax on grounds that Mr Flynn’s payment was to defray medical expenses.

“Mr Adams is consulting with his tax advisers as to whether any taxation arises from this medical procedure, and if there is an issue he will ensure that he is fully tax-compliant,” the Sinn Féin spokesman replied.

In general, gift tax applies where the person making the gift or the recipient is resident or ordinarily resident in the State at the date of the gift.

However, gifts received exclusively for the purpose of discharging the qualifying expenses of a person permanently incapacitated due to physical infirmity can be exempted.

The gift recipient must apply to Revenue to avail of this exemption, said a Revenue spokeswoman, who stressed she was speaking generally and not referring to any individual case.

Mr Adams told RTÉ interviewer Marian Finucane last weekend that the procedure in the US was to deal with a “long-standing and very painful complaint”.

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garda adrian donohoe murder, suspects, arrests, credit union robbery, reward, an garda siochana, sinn fein, gerry adams td

garda adrian donohoe murder, suspects, arrests, credit union robbery, reward, an garda siochana, sinn fein, gerry adams td

Gardaí are appealing for anyone with information to contact them at the incident room at Dundalk Garda Station on 042-9388470 or the Confidential Line 1800-666111.

Spawn of the Provo Beast

Over a 40 year period up to and including the present day the criminal activity of Provisional Sinn Fein/IRA and their various surrogates have turned the beautiful countryside of south Armagh and its neighbouring counties Monaghan and Louth into a criminal black-spot on the Irish landscape, only a few short months ago Provisional Sinn Fein/IRA criminals kidnapped, butchered and murdered 21 year old Paul Quinn in Monaghan, his cowardly murderers are unlikely to be brought to justice as the Provisional Sinn Fein/IRA crime empire demands silence from those who know about their heinous criminality. Prior to being parachuted into Louth for the last General Election, Gerry Adams TD and his hench-men meet with the leaders of the Real IRA in Louth in order to ensure that Adams would be able to run for election without opposition of interference, in return Adams offered to use his position to demand better conditions for Real IRA prisoners, both in the north and in the Republic.

Adams had decided to run across the border as the embarrassing trial of the paedophile brother he protected is expected to bring much unwanted publicity, Adams had concealed the rape of his 4 year old niece Aine Tyrell (her claims of rape by her father Liam Dominic Adams were accepted by Gerry Adams TD but he failed to go to the authorities either north or south). Adams was also forced to admit that he had concealed the serial child rape crimes of his father Gerry Adams Snr, and to add insult to the injury of the children raped and in order to maintain their silence Gerry Adams TD gave  

The murder of Garda Adrian Donohoe last week has left the good and decent people of the ‘border’ counties stunned and shocked, and it is the legacy of fear embedded in those communities by Provo criminality that may see much needed information being untold as people will be branded touts. While Garda Adrian Donohoe may not have been shot dead by the Provos, we can be certain that it is the Provo legacy of criminality and brutality that created the conditions for the on-going criminality in that area. We can be certain that there is some connection between the murderers of Garda Donohoe and the Provo mafia that continues to operate in the ‘border’ counties. Gerry Adams TD may offer crocodile tears to the family and colleagues of Garda Donohoe, however, the truth is that Adams is a coward who could easily order the murder of Jean McConville and many other innocent men, women and children. Adams likes to brand his crimes as political, however, only the devil himself could described concealing child rape as political.

From the fields and lanes around the Border, the killers of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe sprung.

They fled back to the same lawless territory after the outrage and now this Border Country is where they are seeking to hide from the biggest Garda manhunt since the murder of Veronica Guerin. The Garda are joined in force by their professional colleagues in the PSNI.

The most hunted killers in Ireland are a feral young breed, a new generation of criminals and racketeers whose iron hold over the border has turned a strip of Ireland into an outlaw land.

Reared in a lawless region where criminality is deeply embedded, they have been brought up in the shadow of diesel laundering, tobacco smuggling, murder and rape.

However, the older command are now struggling to control the wild younger generations of gangs that they have spawned. And this week the monster they created became a nightmare of their own making.

Today the multi-million-euro diesel laundering industry is shut down, the tobacco smugglers are grounded and the lawless border has come under the intense and unwelcome spotlight of An Garda Síochána and the PSNI.

Teams of detectives are combing the area for clues to the young outlaws who executed Garda Adrian Donohoe last week at Lordship Credit Union outside Dundalk.

Blue uniforms are knocking at every door and the region's web-like road network and dirt tracks - many of which have been laid by smugglers - are being mapped out in the hunt.

Attention

'Business' has ground to a halt and countless diesel-laundering operations that had before gone un-noticed have come to the attention of a 100-man Garda team intent on leaving no stone unturned in the hunt for the killers.

Sources say there will be no quick arrests of the gang members suspected of being behind the capital murder - the most serious offence that can be committed in the Irish Republic and one which carries a 40-year jail term.

Progress is slow. And currently there is little point in arresting anyone as there is a mountain of work to do before anything of substance can be put to the five that carried out the raid. Those that stole the car to order days previous in Clogherhead and the people who hid, fuelled and later torched the getaway vehicle.

Senior sources say that the car used by the raiders could have used any of 35 different routes through the area known as Bandit Country to make their escape.

It is understood that hours of CCTV footage from a network of winding roads will be painstakingly gone through over the coming weeks to track the car from Lordship, Co. Louth, to Keady, Co. Armagh, where it was burnt out.

The car was torched in a professional job that left nothing save the chassis number, which has identified it as a 2 litre diesel Volkswagen Passat stolen in Clogherhead days previously and stored for the robbery.

Gardai believe it was stolen to order for the raid on Lordship Credit Union last week by local thieves connected to the south Armagh-based gang, who chose a night that a popular barman in Clogherhead was being waked.

Torched

However, the thieves had to break into the house of a couple to take the keys of the vehicle between 11.30pm and 4.30am, so officers are hopeful they have left fingerprints or other forensic evidence.

They are also hoping to pick them up around the area on CCTV footage.

It is believed that the car was stored and the tank filled to prepare it for the raid and Gardai say anyone involved in any aspect of preparing it could be facing capital murder charges or conspiracy to murder.

Across the Border PSNI officers are working to identify gang members who were waiting at Keady to torch the car. Sources say they too will face the most serious charges in connection with the crime.

Bandit Country has been notoriously difficult to police over decades of Provo crime in that part of Ireland. It is made up of a spider's web of winding roads and dirt tracks used by smugglers, and has long been a stronghold of support for the IRA and other criminal gangs involved in fuel smuggling and armed raids.

A lawlessness and criminality is deeply embedded in this region of north Louth and south Armagh, which is mainly Republican.

It was Christened 'Bandit Country' in the early 1970s by Britain's then Northern Secretary Merlyn Rees.

The Cooley and Mourne Mountains straddle the Border and rise up above small villages often divided into two jurisdictions, giving criminals an advantage over police. The area around Culloville, where the man believed to have aimed and fired the shotgun is from, is one such township.

It is divided a number of times by the Border.

The man who built up the mob suspected of having carried out a series of aggravated burglaries and raids on business premises over the past few years is a close associate of a well-known Provo who was once himself a tight associate of Thomas 'Slab' Murphy.

Calculated

The two families fell out after a row which resulted in the murder of one of the gang member's families.

Officers say the suspected gunman is a cold and calculated criminal who has shot at people indiscriminately before during robberies. He has never been so precise in his shot as he was when he aimed the barrel of his shotgun at Garda Donohoe's head in a killing that could only be described as an execution.

He was standing in the shadows of the Lordship Credit Union building while his gang, including an 18-year-old female getaway driver, blocked the exit with the car.

Seconds after Garda Donohoe got out of his vehicle to walk towards the dark coloured vehicle, the assassin raised and secured the shotgun at his shoulder, aimed and blasted the officer in the back of the head.

He then smashed the glass of the unmarked squad car and warned Donohoe's partner Garda Joe Ryan not to get out of the vehicle.

Meanwhile, other gang members rifled through a jeep that a terrified female staff member was due to travel in to lodge the Credit Union takings in a Dundalk bank.

They stole her handbag containing just €4,000 but left behind more cash in the glove compartment.

All were wearing balaclavas and they took off in the direction of the Dublin road at a furious speed.

The female, who Gardai are confident was driving the car, manoeuvred the vehicle through floods, under tight railway bridges and around tight bends, rarely dropping below 100mph. She is believed to be in a relationship with the gunman and an expert driver.

It is understood that the gang, who are holed up in safe-houses, are being closely monitored by surveillance experts and anyone harbouring them will also become the focus of the massive investigation.

The Irish League of Credit Unions has offered a €50,000 reward for information leading to the killers, an incentive that officers believe could help crack the veil of silence that traditionally hangs over Bandit Country.

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Gerry Adams TD has hit a Bum-Note with fellow politicians as he travelled to America for $50,000 Dollar Private Healthcare treatments on his posterior

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A total of 30 people are waiting on trolleys in our Health Region today.

Cavan General has the highest figure with 13 people waiting on a hospital bed – while in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, there are 11 people on trolleys.

Our Lady’s hospital in Navan has 6 people waiting on a bed.

That’s according to the latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
Nationally there are 345 people on trolleys while Sinn Fein president enjoys Private Treatment.

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been accused of being "incredibly hypocritical" for choosing private medical care in the US, despite criticising private healthcare in the Republic and Northern Ireland. Mr Adams travelled to America where he underwent Private Health Care treatment expected to cost 50,000 US Dollars.

Mr Adams has been criticised by politicians on both sides of the border, with an SDLP assembly member, as well as Fine Gael and Fianna Fail politicians, saying his actions are at odds with Sinn Fein policy.

The Louth TD underwent a "surgical procedure" in New York last summer. Sinn Fein is not providing details of it, except to say it was a prostate problem but not cancer.

The party says Mr Adams, who insists he only takes home the average industrial wage of €33,000, paid for the procedure out of ‘his own pocket’. A spokesman said Mr Adams had been advised the procedure was best carried out in New York. When asked if the procedure could not be carried out by the HSE or the National Health Service (NHS), a spokesman for Mr Adams said: "That's a matter for Gerry and not for me."

This is despite Sinn Fein consistently criticising the government over its claims the health service is being privatised.

"The policy of the last government and of this is to encourage the privatisation of the health service, including private nursing homes and to cut resources to public nursing homes," Mr Adams said last year.

But Fianna Fail's Seanad leader Darragh O'Brien said: "I hope the operation was a success but it does seem to me to be incredibly hypocritical. Do Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein not trust the Irish health service?"

Fine Gael party chairman Charlie Flanagan said this was "another example of Sinn Fein socialism -- it suits them one day and the next it doesn't".

"This is not very consistent with Sinn Fein policy, is it?" Mr Flanagan asked. "This is another example of the doublespeak we have come to expect from Sinn Fein." And Cork East Fine Gael TD Tom Barry accused Mr Adams of adopting a "do as I say, not as I do" attitude.

SDLP Belfast assembly member Conall McDevitt criticised Mr Adams for opting out of the NHS, which would be available to him in Belfast. "In terms of socialism and social democracy, this is against SDLP values of not seeking better treatment simply because you have more money," Mr McDevitt said.

Sinn Fein said Mr Adams' flights were paid for by ‘Friends of Sinn Fein’, its US-based support group. It also claims Mr Adams was in the US on party business, and meeting the Friends of Sinn Fein board, a senior member of the SDLP said of Mr Adams explanation, “If you told that to a donkey it would kick you”, while a senior member of the Labour Party in Dublin said, “Adams and Sinn Fein are caught talking out both sides of their mouth once again, perhaps it’s their hypocrisy that needs urgent surgery or abstraction”.