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In this Feb, 28, 2016 file photo, Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams talks to members of the media after being elected TD for Louth at the count centre in Dundalk, Ireland. Britain’s Supreme Court on Wednesday May 13, 2020 quashed Irish nationalist politician Gerry Adams’ convictions for trying to break out of prison in the 1970s, handing a long-awaited legal victory to the former Sinn Fein leader. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file) **FILE**

Top UK court quashes Gerry Adams’ prison break convictions

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Gerry Adams, the longtime leader of Irish Republican Army's political wing, used the most toxic of all racial slurs Sunday night. (Associated Press)

Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein president, tweets N-word

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday Jan. 12, 2012 file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photograph showing her mother Jean McConcille, at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of a Belfast widow. Adams, 65, confirmed his own arrest in a prepared statement and described it as a voluntary, prearranged interview. Police long had been expected to question Adams about the killing of Jean McConville, a 38-year-old mother of 10 whom the IRA killed with a single gunshot to the head as an alleged spy. According to all authoritative histories of the Sinn Fein-IRA movement, Adams served as an IRA commander for decades, but he has always denied holding any position in the outlawed group. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file)

Correction: Northern Ireland-Adams Arrested story

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams gets a warm welcome from a woman on the Andersonstown road in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday, May 5, 2014. A police evidence file documenting Gerry Adams' Irish Republican Army career has been delivered to British state prosecutors in Belfast, but experts say the chances of the Sinn Fein leader being charged are slim on legal, political and particularly national-security grounds. Adams, 65, walked free Sunday after five days of police interrogation and declared his innocence in the unsolved 1972 abduction, slaying and secret burial of a Belfast mother of 10, Jean McConville. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Northern Ireland police chief defends Adams arrest

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams speaks to the media in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday May 4, 2014. Adams was released without charge Sunday after five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old Irish Republican Army killing, an event that has driven a dangerous wedge into Northern Ireland's unity government. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Analysis: Belfast IRA charge on Adams unlikely

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photo with her mother, Jean McConville, at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of McConville. On Friday, May 2, the senior Sinn Fein politician in Northern Ireland's unity government demanded Adams' immediate release, as police sought to extend his interrogation over McConville's murder. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Belfast Police: Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams to be freed, charges unlikely

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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photo with her mother, Jean McConville, at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of McConville. On Friday, May 2, the senior Sinn Fein politician in Northern Ireland's unity government demanded Adams' immediate release, as police sought to extend his interrogation over McConville's murder. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Police get extra 48 hours to question Gerry Adams

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Michael McConville, the son of Jean McConville who was murdered by the IRA, speaks to the media at the Wave Trauma centre in Belfast, Thursday, May, 1, 2014. Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams is still being questioned by police at Antrim police station after being arrested late Wednesday in connection with the murder of Jean McConville. (AP Photo)

Sinn Fein chief detained 3rd day over IRA killing

By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press

Boston College project cited in Gerry Adams arrest

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 file photo, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams speaks to the media at Stormont Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland police say they have arrested Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on suspicion of involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of a Belfast widow. Adams confirmed his own arrest Wednesday in a prepared statement and described it as a voluntary, prearranged interview. Police had been expected to question the 65-year-old Adams about the 1972 killing of Jean McConville, whom the IRA executed as an alleged spy. The IRA did not admit the killing until 1998. Adams was implicated in the killing by two IRA veterans who gave taped interviews to researchers for a Boston College research project. The Northern Ireland police took legal steps to acquire the interviews, parts of which have already been published after one IRA interviewee died. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file)

Sinn Fein leader arrested over 1972 IRA killing

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

** FILE ** Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrive by carriage in the parade ring on the fourth day of the Royal Ascot horse race meeting at Ascot, England, on Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Former IRA commander to meet Queen Elizabeth II

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA member is seen in Drogheda, Ireland, last week. Ed Moloney, a former Belfast journalist, and the former IRA member who collected the interviews, Mr. McIntyre, go to court on Tuesday in Boston seeking to persuade Judge William Young to let Boston College keep the audiotapes out of the hands of Belfast police who are probing the Irish Republican Army's 1972 killing of Jean McConville, the Belfast mother 10. (Associated Press)

Belfast police seek access to IRA tapes

By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press