Michael McDowell: Adams bounces along in our post-factual world while the Stack family suffers

There is a parallel universe in which Gerry, a pioneer of a the 'post-factual' world, lives

A youthful Gerry Adams in the 1970's

The phrase “living in a parallel universe” is often used to describe the mindset of people who have created their own moral and factual order, and inhabit a different moral space from most. This week, it has been used about Gerry Adams as he wriggles and twists in an attempt to reconcile his membership of the elected parliament of a modern Irish democracy, on the one hand, and his central role in the ...