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ENDA KENNY HAS said that parties in the south have no connection to the arrest of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams over the murder of Jean McConville.
The Taoiseach has been one of a number of politicians reacting to the arrest of Adams today and was responding to claims from Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald that there is political motivation behind the arrest ahead of the elections on 23 May.
Kenny said that the most important thing is that the widowed mother-of-10 was murdered and her body not found until 2003.
He insisted: “The parties in the South have absolutely no connection with this at all.”
The Fine Gael leader said he hoped that Adams would answer questions “in the best way he can”.
“This is still a live murder case, this is still a live investigation and all I can say is that I hope that the president of Sinn Féin, Deputy Adams, answers in the best way he can, to the full extent that he can questions that are being asked about a live murder investigation by the PSNI. She was murdered and her murder has not been solved.”
Fianna Fáil’s Niall Collins said that by its actions Sinn Féin is seeking to politicise the issue and said that McDonald should withdraw her comments.
“Her comments are also completely insensitive to the memory of Jean McConville, whose family have already suffered enough and whose son has welcomed the arrest. She should withdraw them at the earliest possible opportunity,” he said.
Collins said that there was a double standard in Sinn Féin being critical of An Garda Siochana in this jurisdiction but criticising the PSNI for “doing their job in the North”.
She said that McDonald’s comments are “serving as a distraction” and “smack of the Sinn Féin of old”.
On Twitter, the Fine Gael chairman Charlie Flanagan, a vocal critic of Sinn Féin’s past, said that the party’s criticism of the PSNI is “deeply ironic”.
Another Fine Gael TD, Alan Farrell, said that the party is “trying to have it both ways”.
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Yacht rock?
Tayor has disappeared up his arse by the soudns of it.Still, I’ll probably visit at some point.
This Youtube show is the whole reason Yacht Rock is a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U
So a hipster bar basically
Essentially yes
Nope. The article didn’t contain the word ‘artisan’ so it can’t be a hipster bar, unless artisan has become too mainstream…
Spent many a good night inside in the Twisted Pepper with my jaw swinging and eyes the size of black holes. Can’t see that happening in the new spot, which is a shame.
I’d never let that stop you.Take a double dose just before their new open and start flailing around the place with the costumes.
Sim Simma is still on so it’s at least a bit of an option. Can at least smoke joints till your eyes fall out
Can someone explain ‘yacht rock’ to me?
I just Googled it… sound like somewhere between porn soundtrack and easy listening
Thanks James. I’m getting old
I smell hipsters
So a hipster bar essentially
What gave it away?
Basically yes
Hipsters all over Dublin are creaming themselves right now. Or whatever the cool hipster version of creaming yourself is.
Crème freighting ones self.
Fraiching… Feck sake.
Doesn’t matter. You probably wouldn’t have heard of it.
That’s a teepee, not a wigwam.
Relax. You’re two tents.
Don’t yurt his feelings.
he clearly felt a point needed to be made
It will have been better when it was a nightclub. A big loss.
This is not important as its not about anything in Cork.
Cork.
Sir Henry’s.
Cork.
Yacht Rock……..ffs …
I liked chicken heart skewers before they were cool.
Wig wam bam gonna make you my man.
wam bam bam gonna get you if I can.
Wig wam bam gonna make you understand.
Try a little touch, try a little too much,
Just try a wig wam bam.
It’s like you read my mind hahhahaha
I say not too many on here know of The Sweet or the song Wig Wam Bam from 1972 (I wasn’t even born then but my dad played that song all the time )
Oh, you poor little thing – dat’s heinous ;-)
What time is Ben klock on?
Sounds like the most pretentious tosh in the world. Hope it collapses after 6 months
Bit harsh
But will there be Whiskey???
When you have to say that you’re not a hipster bar, you’re definitely a hipster bar… This place will be swarming with skinny jeans and hair buns in no time!
Nightclubs are dead / dying… Thankfully.
You can’t eat Brunch at 2am. and can’t enjoy a nightclub with a killjoy attitude like that..
Not a hipster bar…… Yacht Rock, Brooklyn, Fake moustaches, craft beers and home brewing kits…hmmmmmm
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