Gerry Adams could have questions to answer if the Delours Price tapes go public
Journalist Ed Moloney has claimed that tapes being held in Boston containing interviews with former IRA member Delours Price could lead to the fall of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams were they to be released.
Last week the US Supreme Court ruled that tapes of an interview with Price by Boston College could be released to the PSNI.
Detectives in the North are investigating claims by Price before she died in January of this year that she was one of the IRA volunteers involved in the kidnap, torture and murder of mum of 10 Jean McConville in Belfast in 1972. Ms McConville’s remains were only discovered buried at Shellinghill Beach almost 10 years ago now in August 2003.
Price is understood to have alleged that Gerry Adams, now a TD in Louth, was her commanding officer at the time of the killing and ordered her to undertake the mission.
Adams has always denied having any involvement in the death of Ms McConville or having been a member of the IRA.
In 2009, one of his closest friends Brendan Hughes gave an interview that was broadcast after his death which poured scorn on Adam’s denial of IRA membership. The interview, which appeared in the programme Voices From The Grave, said that Adams was at the epicentre of many IRA operations in Belfast in the early Seventies, including the disappearance of Jean McConville.
The interviews with Hughes and Price were conducted by IRA convict Anthony McIntyre and Ed Moloney – with the latter pleading with the Americans not to release the tapes.
At the weekend he told RTÉ that the material provided by Price could lead to the fall of Gerry Adams and potentially even threaten the entire peace process.
We wait with bated breath to see what happens now…
Source: We owe it to McConville to reveal IRA interviews and tackle Adams (Evening Herald)
