Irish Independent versus Sinn Fein-1916-2015.....Continued (Part 3)

“For reasons of corporate political advantage Sinn Fein will attempt to lead Ireland into fiscal and moral anarchy”

Irish Independent 9/11/2014

                                                                           Gerry Adams

“Many are now asking is there any institution of the state Sinn Fein will not undermine if it gets its hands on power. We will get our answer if the political ethics of Sinn Fein's Stalingrad of West Belfast are transported south of the Border.” 

Irish Independent editorial piece headlined: Can the centre hold against Sinn Fein 7/12/014

“Because Sinn Fein is the only party in Dail Eireann that cannot claim to be the direct political descendants of the leaders of the Easter Rising.”

Irish Independent’s Eoghan Harris 8/2/2015 

“Martin Mc Guinness and I are waiting since last summer for a meeting with the Taoiseach. Fact is, the Taoiseach doesn’t understand the peace process. He sees Sinn Fein as rivals and not as partners in peace building.”

Gerry Adams

“I sit across the chamber in the Dáil with him every single week – I don’t think he understands the peace process. I don’t think he gets it. I don’t think he understands the North. The other party leaders were prepared “to employ any dirty trick, any slander, any lie, any insinuation, any insult or any hopeless accusation against us to stem the growth of Sinn Fein.”

Gerry Adams

“It isn’t a surprise that our political opponents are determined to stop us, determined to attack us, to undermine us. The Irish Independent newspaper group had been especially virulent in their attacks on the party and the “campaign of slander” against myself and the party."

Gerry Adams

“They (The Irish Independent) opposed our efforts at peace-building 20 years ago and continues to attack us today. They had a long and disreputable history in that regard as they called for the leaders of the 1916 Rising to be executed and Micahel Collins in his day had been subjected to fierce criticism by the same newspaper. He had responded by holding the editor at gunpoint and smashing their press, yet today he is treated like a Gandhi figure.”

Garry Adams