Adams was linked to the IRA's courts'

Gerry Adams remained a member of the IRA’s army council until 2005, prescribing the manner in which its kangaroo court system adjudicated, said former IRA blanket prisoner Anthony McIntyre.

This civil and judicial administration arm of the IRA evolved in ‘wartime’ as a result of political opposition to the RUC, and a deep mistrust of the police system at the time, said McIntyre who, along with journalist Ed Moloney assembled the Boston College ...