SF members guilty of ‘moral cowardice’ on Disappeared
Labour’s Ged Nash says Adams and former IRA members must ‘front up’ to help families
Louth TD Ged Nash called on Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams and on former IRA members to “front up” and provide the necessary information to help in the recovery of the bodies of the seven remaining members of the Disappeared. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times
Michael McConville (left) with his brothers Arthur and Jim. Their mother Jean McConville was “disappeared” more than 40 years ago. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
The reluctance of Sinn Féin politicians to question the truthfulness of Gerry Adams’s denials that he was implicated in the 1972 murder of Jean McConville “smacks of moral cowardice”, a Labour TD has asserted in Belfast.
Louth TD Ged Nash called on Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams and on former IRA members to “front up” and provide the necessary information to help in the recovery of the bodies of the seven remaining members of the Disappeared.