5 d. ago Gerry Adams to take legal action against Britain’s block on internment compensation payout

Move in response to NI Troubles Bill, which seeks to prevent former Sinn Féin leader from achieving redress

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5 d. ago Gerry Adams taking legal action against UK government over move to block internment compensation

He accused the UK government of “hypocrisy and duplicity” after it proposed the retrospective law change that would block him and others from the payment.

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5 d. ago Gerry Adams accuses UK government of ‘duplicity’ over move to block internment compensation

The ex-Sinn Féin president said he was consulting lawyers after a Bill was tabled to prevent him securing a payout over his internment in the 1970s.

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6 d. ago UK government moves to block payouts to Gerry Adams and other Troubles detainees

A 2020 Supreme Court ruling had paved the way for Mr Adams to secure compensation for his detention without trial in the early 1970s.

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2 w. ago Trump authorises deployment of 300 national guard troops to Chicago over ‘violent riots’

Move comes as US government says border patrol agents there shot and injured woman while firing at someone

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2 w. ago Sinn Féin TD says Gerry Adams would have made a 'really good' president

TD for the Dublin Fingal West constituency, Louise O'Reilly, particularly emphasised the role Adams could have played in advancing Irish unity

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