Adams party leader for 35 years until 2018 when handing over control uncontested to Mary Lou McDonald
Mr Adams was Sinn Féin leader for 35 years from 1983 to 2018, when he handed over the leadership of the party uncontested to Mary Lou McDonald. He led the party away from its traditional policy of abstentionism, contesting elections in the Republic and eventually taking seats in the Dáil.
Mr Adams’s leadership was always publicly uncontested. However, the new book relates in detail how McGuinness believed Mr Adams should temporarily step aside as leader in 2013 when his brother Liam was convicted of raping his daughter Áine over a six-year period, beginning when she was four years old. ]
At the time the documentary was aired, the Adams family revealed that Gerry Adams snr, father to Gerry and Liam Adams and grandfather to Áine, had sexually abused members of his family.Martin McGuinness being escorted back to the Bridewell on January 1st, 1973, after appearing before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on a number of charges, some of which related to the Offences Against the State Act.
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