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Court Hears IRA Members Angered by Gerry Adams’s Repeated Denials

Veteran journalist John Ware told a London High Court on Monday that former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams’ repeated denials of IRA membership angered members of the group he interviewed — and that, based on decades of reporting, he believes Adams served for more than 30 years on the IRA’s army council and was “one of the single most influential strategists in the Republican movement.” Ware’s evidence came in a civil trial brought by three victims of separate IRA bomb attacks in 1973 and 1996, who allege Adams was directly…