Prince Charles has historic handshake with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams

May 20, 2015

Prince Charles has historic handshake with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams

Prince Charles offered a historic handshake Tuesday to Gerry Adams, longtime leader of the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party and reputedly an Irish Republican Army commander when the outlawed group killed the prince's great-uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, in 1979. The peacemaking gesture marked the first ...

/ May 11, 2014

Northern Ireland can't have peace and justice

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The bleak truth is that the closest Northern Ireland will get to reconciling irreconcilable principles left over from the Troubles will be to combine a policy of no prosecutions with a tribunal to uncover the truth — along the lines of South Africa's post-apartheid ...