Apocryphal: of questionable authenticity…( Oxford English Dictionary ).
The difficulty is that the more lies you tell the harder it is to stop. And when you have honed and mastered that skill over many years the task becomes nigh on impossible. Gerry Adams is quite adept at telling lies. He does so on a regular basis and has perfected the Art of doing so with a relatively straight face. His porkies are of legendary status The list is lengthy..His non membership of the IRA–his non involvement in the many instances of the Disappeared, in particular that of housewife Jean McConville–and the little white one about the message that never came from Thatcher–a note that could have saved the lives of six Hunger strikers in 1981. And not to disappoint he has come off with his latest. And as Frank Carson might have said–” It’s a cracker”!!
The Sinn Fein president has been giving evidence in the trial of his younger brother Liam who has been accused of sexually abusing his daughter Aine when she was a child. Gerry at various stages during the trial has claimed that he had no knowledge of conversations that took place between him and the girls mother–that he never said he would have hit his brother with a hammer if the allegations were true–he claimed that he had a problem with “exact timelines”–and he refuted the suggestion that he had contacted the PSNI on the matter in 2007 in order to save his political career. Note. Not that he didnt have a problem in giving information to the Police whenever it suited him. How ironic is this when he was involved in many cases of disappearing innocent Catholics whose crime was giving information to the RUC.
And this is the man who as recently as last week in an article for the Irish News is urging us to invest in a Truth and Reconciliation process to help heal the wounds of the past!!
” Nobody speaks the truth when there’s something they must have”.
Elizabeth Bowen
