Cahill says SF’s failure to apologise over abuse allegations casts election shadow

Máiría Cahill has said that Sinn Féin’s failure to fully apologise over the handling of her abuse allegations threatens to overshadow the party’s presidential campaign.

Cahill alleges that she was raped as a teenager by an IRA man, and that Sinn Féin and the IRA tried to cover it up. A Police Ombudsman report into her case and those of three other women last week found that the Police Service of Northern Ireland ...