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A CLOSE ADVISOR to Gerry Adams has been inadvertently tweeting from the Sinn Féin president’s account since he was taken into police custody last night.
Adams’s was arrested by the PSNI after he was asked to meet with them last night in connection with the investigation into the murder of widow and mother-of-1o Jean McConville in 1972.
Sinn Féin has confirmed that a close advisor to Adams, who accompanied him to Antrim last night, has been using the Louth TD’s iPad since he was arrested and has been inadvertently tweeting from the account, believing that they were tweeting from their own.
Adams is a prolific and infamous Twitter user whose personal and often bizarre tweets about his activities and his teddy bears have been cause for much debate since he joined the site last year.
But there was much confusion when his account last night tweeted the statement that had been issued following his detention by police in the North, leaving more than a few people wondering if he was tweeting from police custody.
That speculation intensified when this morning the account tweeted a piece written on IrishCentral.com by Niall O’Dowd heavily criticising the arrest of the Sinn Féin leader.
That tweet has subsequently been deleted.
Separately, we’ve also established that Sinn Féin deleted a tweet referring to the ‘arrest’ of Adams, because, party officials claim, they weren’t certain if he had been arrested or not and were of the understanding that he would be spoken to ‘under caution’.
Confusion arose last night when the PSNI said that a 65-year-old man had been ‘arrested’, while Sinn Féin made no mention of the words ‘arrest’ or ‘arrested’ in either statements from Adams nor his deputy Mary Lou McDonald.
The party also declined to say if he had been arrested when pressed last night.
McDonald subsequently acknowledged on Newstalk this morning that Adams had been arrested by the PSNI, saying: “In terms of the arrest element, he was arrested.”
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McConviles son has been doing the rounds on TV, radio and newspapers all day today. Now I don’t want to sound insensitive, but he keeps on mentioning that he knows who killed her. He’s making a big deal of it. He also said that he has not helped police with their enquiries. Does anyone else think that’s a bit odd? He rightly wants justice, but will not tell police who abducted her.
I can understand that he fears for his safety, but with that in mind; why make so much noise publicly about knowing who is responsible?
Struck me as a bit odd I must say.
Mart
Most people in this Republic are afraid to openly express their views on this or any negative issues surrounding Sinn Fein because they have a long and murky reputation for punishment beatings and killings.
It’s therefor not surprising that Michael McConville is afraid for his life. However the issue may well have nothing to do with the actual people who tortured Jean McConville so appallingly or who drove her to a beach in County Louth to disappear her.
What the PSNI want is the name of the individual who issued the instructions for all of this to happen and it sounds as if they may well have that very information.
This horrific murder cannot be regarded as an accident of war as it breaches the Geneva Convention and there will be no sentence reduction for those found guilty of this outrageous crime.
Richard, he explicitly stated that he knows who killed her.. that’s what got my attention!
And as I said, I understand the culture of fear and silence. But you’ve got to wonder why he’s making so much noise about knowing who is responsible. If you were in his position and feared for your life, would you go to national radio and TV stations and confirm to the world that you knew who was responsible? I sure as hell wouldn’t.
Richard Rogers claims that most people in Ireland are frightened of expressing negative views on Sinn Fein for fear of what might happen to them. This isn’t even true in West Belfast, their stronghold. You just have to look at the comments on here to see what a farcical claim this is
That would be Jean McConvill you mean Mart, I presume, yes , ok and you want to know why her son is making a ” big deal” about knowing who kidnapped and murdered his mother , and you don’t want to come across as insensitive . No ur fairly insensitive , sorry.
Have to say if I were him I’d feel exactly the same, particularly if I’d witnessed the abduction of my mother at a young age…let’s not forget his mother was exonerated by a PSNI investigation lead by Nuala O’Loan, not guilty of anything!
Have a look at the link I posted and then tell me it’s insensitive to question any of it. He says he knows who killed her and refuses to tell police. Is he above questioning just because of who he is? Anyone else withholding such vital information in a murder investigation would rightly be chastised for doing so.
And I’m not even criticising the man.. I’m just wondering why he’s making so much noise about knowing who killed her. How can anyone demand justice and at the same time make the world aware that they themselves are standing in the way of justice?
Rodgers you sprout some c%ap. firstly the conflict has never been recognized as a war by Britian so therefore the Geneva convention does not apply. Secondly the man has not been charged never mind convicted of anything. Thirdly it will take a wee bit more than one of your rants to over turn the GFA agreement on the 2 year imprisonment rule.
Maybe he is giving us a hint he says he know who did it and then when PSNI arrested Gerry Adams he said he was glad progress was being made……
You are making no allowance for his age at the time.
@Mart
He goes into some detail as to why he won’t reveal names.
Blaming the victim. A man who was beaten and threatened with death by the IRA.
It’s a media frenzy, with more bark than bite. People are choosing Sinn Fein in greater numbers than ever before, and the establishment will do anything in their power to discredit and disable. Flawed strategy however as most SF voters have already made their minds up, and the establishment pro-austerity parties are going to continue to seep votes as ordinary folk continue to feel the pinch and pay the price for the failures of FF and subservience of FG/Lab. This is realpolitik.
Where is the media Frenzy??
All they have done is reported Adam’s has been arrested and is being questioned. That is not a frenzy.
Either way, Adam’s is toast as SF leader – as of now his own personal political ambitions in the South are over.
As in all over the news? He won’t be toast either, don’t delude yourself.
He witnessed who took his mother away but I think the point that’s trying to be made is there looking to get a conviction on the person who actually ordered the deed to be carried out !!!!!!
Telling everyone that you know who killed her would surely put him at more risk than giving the names now and turning the spotlight on them. What’s he up to? And his sister said she’s about to tell – why doesn’t she? Beggars believe.
No fear of Gerry ,
No one has ever got a straight answer out of him….
He is hardly going to start telling the truth at this stage of his life….
Top Cat – WHATABOUTERY !
Gerry’s told so many lies over the years he’s probably a little unsure what’s true and what’s not at this stage of his life.
I CAWNT REMEMBER!!!
Nothing is ever what it seems where SF is concerned…
WHATABOUTERY – O’Really , O’Reilly !
Wouldn’t surprise me if mary lou herself gets “invited” in for an auld chat down the local garda station about a few tiger raids
Why do you think he has do many accounts? Are you convinced that nobody else would speak negatively of your beloved SF?
How can you possibly issue Tweets on someone else’s IPad and Account. Not alone is that a dishonest claim but it seriously damages the idea that anything Sinn Fein says is coming from the identified authors. Between nom de plumes and issued messages being deleted or changed and statements from the Presidents account being false well………
The PSNI must be having a whale of a time in their attempt to get anything from Mr Adams that resembles fact and in the meantime their supporters are making it up as they go.
Many public figures give access to their twitter accounts to their advisors or PAs. Pure non-story.
When I hit the twitter/journal app on my iPhone I’m automatically signed in, so if anyone had my phone they would be able to post on my account. Rocket science NOT.
Remember the infamous Sinn Fein tweet to the Pat Kenny presidential programme, which turned out not to be Sinn Fein. You can trust nothing, absolutely nothing, that appears on social media from any claimed source.
Am I the only one who doesn’t see anything wrong with Gerry’s personal assistant or the Sinn Féin Press Office tweeting from his account, while he is unable to do so himself? I realise that Gerry has a more “personal” account than the other party leaders, but it’s still part of the Sinn Féin brand.
Just like everything, ‘they haven’t gone away, you know’
There’s nothing at all wrong with it. Zilch. It’s a non issue.
It really is getting tedious now.
Not as tedious though as the SF denial and whataboutery mantra you lot spout…
Isn’t it…wouldn’t he just admit it instead of dragging it out?
“Whataboutery”…I actually hadn’t heard this term before today but I’m already sick of it.
Ah – WHATABOUTERY is using this Twitter account !!!!
One of several Twitter accounts – but with a dead giveaway – Would you like porridge or corn flakes for breakfast darling – Answers – WHATABOUTERY !!!
Ha ha ha !!!!
If you lived in NI you’d hear it a lot.
Are you 12 years old Ciarraioch?
Do you think Gerry has been posting from his own twitter account above?
Do you think Pope Francis send his own tweets while he’s curled up on the sofa ni the vatican watching reruns of The Flying Nun, or does he have someone to do it for him?
Talk about a non-story. its not uncommon for an advisor/PA to have access to a public figures twitter account.
Hi Niall – how I would love to be my grandsons age again – or would I ???
Probably not – people say being young are the the best years of your life, but it’s bogus, I think from your 20′s onward are far better :)
Whataboutery. The new Blueshirt buzz word for this week.
No just the daily favourite of that clown from Kerry
Hi Saul – are you a fan of the Blueshirt saying of WHATABOUTERY too ?
That article from Niall O’Dowd is bang on the money. Worth reading.
Excellent read and right on the money.
Most people can see through it though. It probably won’t affect anything in the long term. May even backfire.
Regardless. Gerry Adams political ambitions in the South are now done and dusted. They are dead. Any chance he may have had of a coalition in the South is over as long a he heads up SF.
He knows that, and anyone even remotely aware of the political landscape can tell you that.
His political death warrant has been signed.
I don’t think so. We’ll have to await the outcome, but I don’t see Adams going anywhere and I see SF continuing to grow in the polls. Just my opinion mind.
“Joe Rice, a Belfast lawyer who has represented senior Republicans over the past three decades, said the tapes would be of little evidential value but would offer a lot of “probative value”, meaning police could play them and demand that Adams respond to details in the recordings.
Rice said Adams had presented himself voluntarily for police questioning and would not have expected to be arrested.
“It looks like his legal team are surprised that he was detained overnight. I would have thought that if it was to be a pre-arranged questioning, as I understand, he probably didn’t need to be arrested,” Rice said.
Something may well give here next 24 hours.
They’re right about the one-sided justice thing.
The soldiers who were known to have pulled the triggers on Bloody Sunday presented themselves for questioning and were not arrested, leaving free men and without charge afterwards. For the sake of impartiality and balance on the part of the PSNI, after arresting the bloke they bloody well better be charging him with something.
I’m not a shinner but… Lol! Paid by the post?
Any decision to charge Adams would be taken by Barra McGrory QC, the director of public prosecutions in Northern Ireland, who has acted on behalf of Sinn Féin in the past and who has a reputation for being scrupulously fair.
The soldiers you refer to were interviewed as part of the Saville enquiry so slightly different circumstances.
An enquiry which found then to have commited unjustified and unjustifiable deaths( murder). That was 4 yrs ago next month. Not 1 been treated yet. Boston diaries are unsubstantiated allegations which Psni have had for less than I year and several arrests with 1 charged. Policing and justice British style.
This must be one of Gerry Adams’s ghost friends!
Maybe it was Ted, his teddy bear.
Gerry can confirm that he nothing to do with composition, spelling or posting of the tweets.
However he will not distance himself from the twit who tweeted.
Surely Gurry isn’t tweeting from his cell on a smuggled phone….the Sinn Fein PR machine looks like it has made a school boy error…
Kris looks like its free game for irish men who actually stood up for their people. If you made fun of some black tosser from NYC by saying “I axed him” there’d be ructions. Some f@cking country eh?
If you’re referring to Gerry Adams standing up for Irish people…don’t include me in that statement…he doesn’t and never will represent the decent law abiding citizens of this country.
But Kris, he in fact does represent decent law abiding citizens. FF, FG and Labour on the other hand…..only look out for themselves.
So Kris the majority of 6 county electorate and cicra 22% of 26 county electorate are NOT decent law abiding citizens then. All in your poisoned view of course.
Stop trying to deflect Roland…a typical SF tactic. The man has never and never will represent me or the ordinary decent LAW ABIDING citizen. The citizen who has never been involved in criminality.
KKK – how on gods earth are you going to get someone to represent your views? – UKIP ?
I didn’t say that M Bowe. Also SF are not the largest party in Northern Ireland…the largest Republican Party certainly.
How could I or would I vote for UKIP Kerryman when I live in Ireland? Silly statement you have to admit….
So basically because we have been screwed by the 3 main parties you gave decided that SF will be our saviours?? They have basically promised everything that the electorate want the year before the general election although their policies in the north are the complete opposite. Are you people really that naive??
Would you care to expand on the “opposite” policies in the 6 counties please Saul???
Kris Reread your original post you used the plural/collective “citizens”. Implying those who vote Sinn Fein and represented by this party are therefore Not law abiding citizens.
Incorrect M Bowe. Please read my post again. I said Gerry Adams does not represent me or the ordinary decent LAW ABIDING citizen in this country. Stop with the Shinner deflationary tactic. My post was in response to Riddle Me This and is plain to see further up the thread.
Find out yourself Bowe. You should know!!
KKK – I assume that you Must have a postal vote ?
So Sinn Fein can reverse an opinion with the delete tweet button?
What is the point of a twitter for Gerry if he isn’t the one using it? Is Ming Flanagan the only person who actually uses his account himself and not some assistant or intern. (Or press team in FG’s case)
So this week we hear about this great up and coming party that is supposed to change our political landscape and then the leader is arrested in connection with a murder????? A few years ago they shot themselves in the foot by getting IRA members to canvass in Dublin for their candidate, they would want to get some more of the ink toner that they swindled from the tax payer a year or two ago to paint a brush over this!!! What’s going to come out next???
If Gerry goes away – so does all this damaging controversy.
It’s a shame. If Adam’s had stepped aside before Xmas, SF would be on the verge, if actually not, the biggest party in the country. Only 2 or 3 days ago I went in search of my local SF candidates, with a view to seriously contemplating giving them my no1 vote. Now, I’m back to square 1 again as Gerry and his controversy has yet again usurped the good work done by many in SF.
I accept fully the man has done some very good work and has a lot to be commended. But this is just business, it’s nothing personal as they say.
So you’re happy to see a man who risked his life to negotiate peace, who is the most popular leader in the country, and whos party is in the ascendency, witch hunted out of his job via trial by media?
I’d rather not vote than vote SF.
I don’t think this will take him down or out. The only thing that’ll take him out is if he is charged. He can stay there as long as he likes other than that, which is part of the problem, no one will risk a coup. Only a handover will suffice in reality. I do hold the honest opinion he should have left by now – that’s my honest opinion.
I always figured Adam’s will eventually run for the presidency, and McGuinness was testing the waters for SF and breaking down barriers for Adam’s to run. I still think that’s likely.
I don’t believe SF expected to be doing this well a short few years ago, and I think Adam’s now may have designs on the possible role of Tanaiste in a coalition Government after the next GE.
Better he goes earlier and runs for the presidency instead.
Its a long way to the next election niall, and a lot more suffering by ordinary people beforehand.
That won’t cut it Werejammin. No leader in the South can go into coalition with him now.
You’ll be amazed at who leaders in the south will go into coalition with in order to get their snout into the trough.
Yes I’m delighted, I hope the baron dies a very painful death in a prison cell, there is not enough karma for this animal
dmd you must be exhausted. 100 similar comments in 24 hours.
This is not news. Every party leader has an assistant tweeting or answering emails etc. on their behalf. I was told this by my friend in fg, about kenny, years ago.
“My friend”, a reliable source…….
Back to your usual defensive bullshit Ruairi! SF machine caught out on this one!
Telling everyone that you know who killed your mother would surely put you under more risk than turning the spotlight on her murderer(s)? Very strange that he doesn’t want to speed up justice.
Probably Paisley tweeting from ‘The Cloud’ …
War drives normal men to do abnormal things.
Like torturing and murdering a widowed mother of 10 kids?
No normal men would do that whether it was war or not. That was the act of psychopaths.
He wasn’t there , he didn’t do it …
As he is doing bird …
The expression ‘doing bird’ means serving a term in prison. He’s being questioned.
He’s been held 24 hours at this point. They can hold him until tomorrow night @8pm.
After that they have to apply for an extension. The fact he’s in there so long as it stands, suggests they have a lot to talk about.
He is being questioned under the Terrorism Act 2000.
I don’t follow Gerry Adams’ Twitter account, but is it at all odd for him to refer to himself in the third person?
It would seem obvious that someone else has tweeted from Adams’ account while he was otherwise occupied.
Correct, but wheres the headline and associated revenue in using that.
Its getting a bit like the missing plane, or Jade Goody, or Charlie Sheens meltdown, every non-story a story, every non-scoop a scoop. We’ll probaby see a headline about him dying his beard before this latest witch hunt is over.
Gerry Adams has his own tweet monkey.
The cover is officially blown! It’s well known that SF has a well oiled media manipulation machine, yes that’s right they have people who use multiple id’s on many sites such as this. Their job is to slag of and deflect anything that is not in the interest of SF. This is just another old Eastern European communist ploy! Your cover has been blown comrade!
“This is just another old Eastern European communist ploy! ”
Yes, I remember learning in history class about the Stazi using multiple IDs on internet forums in the 1950s
Didn’t really think that one out, did you??
Ink, don’t forget the rent a mobs they also have bused around the country. Putin has learned a lot from SF on how to brain wash in Ukrain
Dear oh dear, the YFG teenie boppers are really clutching at straws this evening.
Paranoid much?
Ink toner you are a non person and deserve to be binned like the rubbish you spout!
New toner needed I think
As I was saying were jammin…….your futile attempt to slag off & deflect the point I was making on SF media manipulation…….not very bright are you……..?
Internet forums in the 1950′s? That was a good trick!
Still laughing at Ink Toner and the Stasi Internet! Lol!
Mary Lou for SF Leader!
Eventually.
She’s pretty much controlled by Gerry’s hand up her jaxie anyway. An ambitious ex Fianna Failer who, unlike a lot of Shinners at the time, had no blood on her nice, middle class, hands so it made perfect sense to promote her through the ranks.
Who cares?
Sinn Fein are better and ALL for the people they have taken a lot and they are still here 23rd is coming up nothing will stop that “LET THE PEOPLE HAVE THERE SAY”
No body is stopping them.
O But they are trying to stop them at every corner,Sinn Fein are finding hard to have a public meetings ,who is behind that ?
Don’t mean to be a pr*ck but the troubles were a war,in war informers die she knew what would happen if she got caught.if this were a man there wouldn’t be half as much talk about it
No, not a pr*ck. D*pe…? Definitely
Tell me why I am what you say ‘a d*pe’?
Nuala O’Lone, the independent police ombudsmancame to the conclusion that she was not an informer. She was subject to abduction, torture and summary execution leaving 10 children orphans! something the brave, bold Fenian men of the IRA were so proud of that they denied they did it for 27 years . Pr*ck really, really doesn’t cover it.
So then why are the First Gloucestershire Regiment war diaries for their period in 1972 Divis Flats embargoed until 2059? Completely unprecedented. Nuala O’Loan didn’t have access to the diaries so how can she reach such a conclusion?
So bloody what? what’s the big deal over a few tweets, if it were him he would I am here chatting over a cup of tea with the PNSI. Now move on and cover a story :)
He went to the police station voluntarily, so presumably he just slipped an iPhone up his swiss roll beforehand.
Gerry Adams is a true irish man, all for the people. he speskes the truth and has took a stand to make a differance in ireland , we all want a united ireland. we all want peace. we all want a better country for our selfs and for the future for our children. why punish a hero….we should be applauding…. for his courage and commitment to our country …..lets get behind our fellow republicans and give them our support after all were all the same but Gerry is Legendary ….!
HE’S AN ANNOCENT MAWN!!!
Will the real “Stakeknife” please stand up?
Might doing bird refer to tweeting ?
There was a war in Ireland Gerry Adams help put an end to that war ,i believe Gerry 100% when he said he knows nothing, Her own son knows the name of the man who took his mothers life ,he said that himself ,this is all about The Rise or Sinn Fein ..
Can SF get any more pathetic? I hope the baron goes on hunger strike I could do with a good laugh :D
THEY’LL NEVAR TAKE AWR GERRY!!!!! Was it red wine or paint? I CAWNT REMEMBER.
Shinners now caught trolling as well as murdering innocent people
Maybe he uses Buffer app to Buffer his posts over time
Just when you thought they couldn’t get any more pathetic :D
lets not forget what gerry adams has done for us,sinn fein are the only party that are in the 32 counties and thats down to him,he was not charged with any murder innocent until proven guilty,have we forgot ourselves completely?
Lets Look at some of the possibilities:-
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