Adams and the setting sun

As the Sinn Féin leader signals the end of a monumental career, The Sunday Business Post reflects on his considerable legacy

Gerry Adams in Belfast in 1980 Pic: Pacemaker

Gerry Adams has liked to use the metaphor of getting through the darkness to face into the dawn.

He is now signaling the end of a monumental career that has included stints in British prisons, surviving a loyalist gun attack that saw him shot in the neck, shoulder and arm and, of course, 34 years as the leader of Sinn Féin. The roadmap to what he has called “generational change” in Sinn Féin ...