Patrick Murphy

GERRY Adams is right. (Now, there is a sentence you weren't expecting.) Mr Adams says that Dublin's Special Criminal Court (SCC) should be abolished. The court is presided over by three judges, who operate without a jury in dealing with what the prosecution service decides is subversive crime. You might argue that Sinn Féin is hardly the most credible party to criticise any court, in view of its support over thirty years for the summary execution, without the distraction of a fair trial, of what the Provisional IRA claimed were informers. You are, of course, right,[...]