Concern over ‘love to Gerry Adams’ in Clinton speech

Leaked email shows speechwriter’s fear given Sinn Féin leader’s ‘legal troubles’

Sinn Féin leader  Gerry Adams received a US visa in the mid-1990s during the Northern Irish peace process. Photograph:  Dara Mac Dónaill

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams received a US visa in the mid-1990s during the Northern Irish peace process. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

One of Hillary Clinton’s speechwriters expressed concern that the Democrat “gave more love to Gerry Adams than I might have liked” during an address to an Irish-American audience in New York last year.

Dan Schwerin made the remark in an email to fellow Clinton aides in March 2015, shortly after the former secretary of state spoke at the “Irish America Hall of Fame” lunch about the importance of the former US president Bill Clinton granting Mr Adams a US visa in the mid-1990s during the Northern Irish peace process.

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