Articles from left wing Irish republican
Tommy McKearney
writing about politics, trade unionism and history
Tommy McKearney is a former member of the IRA who now works as an organiser with the Independent Workers Union and as a freelance journalist. He contributed a weekly article to Daily Ireland and many of the articles available on this site were first printed in that newspaper
The Adams era is surely coming to an end and unexpectedly, under a cloud of disquiet generated by a failure to deal adequately with allegations made by his niece against her father. Having survived perilous times for over four decades, the Sinn Fein president is being brought down by a domestic issue not strictly of his own making.
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