An Ireland of Saints and Scholars Reduced to Child Rapists

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Ireland the Breeding Ground for Child Rapists, a culture of denial and secrecy


Child rape is rampant in Ireland at the moment and so is its denial. It cuts right across political class and religious boundaries. It is an issue which is still being ignored across the whole Irish political spectrum, even in the wake of a 60 million euro, damning, report, that has led to the resignations of five bishops recently. Irishmen in particular are struggling with both their own and society's sexist macho male image, as they try to consider what it really is. A generally subservient infiltrated media by an occupying british monarchy, combined with religious elements of an old Roman empire, still keep the island's people in another dark era of dis-information and barbarity.

The Reality of Child Rape and Abuse


One persons's experience of being sexually assaulted as a child is described as follows.

There was the pain. A breaking and entering, when my senses were torn apart. The act of rape on my eight year-old body was like the story of the camel and the eye of the needle, a matter of the needle giving because the camel can't. My child gave because the body could and the mind of the violator could not.

Another person described the state of non-being after a sexual attack.

It took away all my dignity from my body, and from my soul. It is the ultimate invasion of privacy. There was nothing left. My whole body and all my feelings were displayed against my will.

The immediate results are horrific, complete violation of self has happened. A dirty feeling and a betrayal by a trusted adult. Feelings of confusion, humiliation, anger conflicting with guilt. Because of there being no choice but to submit, the child may also feel that she/he colluded. Confusion, along with threats of physical violence, lead to guilt, self-hate and the likelihood of secrecy. Often terms like sexual abuse, molestation, harassment, incest are really hiding the child rape reality. Apart from obvious physical damage, the emotional, sexual and psychological damage lasts a lifetime.

Child rape usually occurs in family. Children are depending on adults for almost everything, generally we live in a patriarchal society with a dominant male. A psychological dependency has developed among women on men, where women believe their means of fulfilment is serving a man. The man can manipulate this power to avoid exposure. A daughter may feel that any disclosure, would not only risk physical attack but she may responsible for the break-up of the family. Commonly she may not be believed.

Often the mother, proves inaccessible. Mothers may wish to remain in denial in order to keep up an image of a secure family, along with a fear of what happens to the family without a man to support them. Sometimes rhere is a belief that ultimately she is to blame, and a real fear of confronting rape within the home. A mother's self image as parent and a wife is shattered by her child's sexual abuse, accompanied by a fear of possible rape experienced by all women. Family denial has dire consequences for the victim.

The power difference of age and knowledge of emotional and sexual terms is baffling to a child . Often a child may not know what is going on but has an awareness of something being wrong. Unless children have the means to articulate their grievance against the adult, the abuse will continue.

The present nuclear family can be a deadly trap for children with men having various motives for committing such a violation? One suggests that the father, while placing his wife in the role of his punishing mother when their relationship changes, seeks intimacy elsewhere, usually a daughter. However, male sexuality in the modern world is increasingly alienated from any real emotion. A child rapist may well have been under the jackboot of exploitation himself as a child.



A Child Abuse Scandal in one of Ireland's Leading Political Families has generated the following questions. Incidentally there was just one leading newspaper, The Sunday Tribune, who did not participate in the general cover-up, yet few if any questions address the realities of the barbarous crime of Child Rape.




a)
A very sad affair with a number of questions needing answers. It beggars belief that Mr Adams was unaware of his brother's position in 'youth' work in Dundalk and that he did not intervene.

b)
How did Liam Adams remain a member of the republican movement while his brother Gerry knew about and apparently believed, the allegations against him.

c)
I find it very strange, that if the RUC were aware of the allegations and knew medical evidence was available, that Liam Adams was not arrested and prosecuted seveal years ago. It's even more strange that he was vetted and cleared for working in a youth club.

d)
Is the "Adams family" the reason Sinn fein have been so noticeably silent, regarding paedophile priests and their continuing roles in charge of Irish schools?

e)
Gerry Adams has stripped him self of any vestige of respectability, by covering up his brothers paedophilia for years He should resign forthwith as leader of sinn fein.

f)
The Gardai,FF,FG and now Sinn Fein .... have PROTECTED the biggest sex ring in European history involving the R.C fascist church.

g)
Did Gerry compromise the Republican movement when he covered up the acivities of his brother ... ?????

h)
What does Hugh Orde (Association Of Chief Police Officers) have to say on the matter - it is known that he discussed it with Gerry Adams ?

i)
What he names of those in charge of the 3 youth groups who Adams said he either warned or that he did not know about - who have now issued quietly published denials about being told anything about the allegations against Liam Adams? Who funds them - are they accountable?

j)
Why are Irish journalists almost without exception (Chris Moore/Suzanne Breen) allowing SF & the "Adams family "to fudge the issue and pretend Sally and Aine were even regarded as family let alone supported for over twenty years - when they were treated as troublesome outcasts????

k)
If five Bishops were forced to resign, for allowing exactly the same thing to happen with priests, as happened with Gerry Adams and his brother, why are the media, police, judicial system, political parties,turning a blind eye to the ongoing threat of well connected alleged paedophiles, a week after a 60 million euro report damned the whole country with its verdict of systemic abuse.

More Revelations in Ireland's Child Sex Scandal

L'Adamsgate video by MaryHedgehog




The story now dubbed L'Adamsgate, is in this writer's view, the biggest political scandal in Irish history.The story cuts to the bone of the machinery of Church and State in both parts of Ireland and the lack of real democracy in British occupied Ireland today. A genuine democracy of the people, is the only protection society's most vulnerable have against despots in the home and in government. The evolving L'Adamsgate story is strikingly similar to the emrging contradicting versions of Watergate but is deeply disturbing for most Irish people with deeply held political and religious beliefs in the wake of the resignations of five bishops, in a relatively small island. It strikes at the very core of the Irish character.


Today the L'Adamsgate scandal took a new turn with further revelations and statement by the parties involved.

a)
Gerry Adams did not tell the Sinn Fein leadership or Louth branch about the abuse allegations when he moved to expel his brother from the party in 1997

b)
For a number of years after 2000, Liam Adams was involved in "localised party work" in Belfast.

c)
He held several positions in a Sinn Fein branch in Andersonstown

d)
He became a branch chairperson in Lower Andersonstown in the heart of his brother's West Belfast constituency.


The brother whom Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams believed abused his own 13 year old daughter, worked for the party in Belfast after being forced out of Sinn Fein in the Republic over the allegations, Sinn Féin admitted today. Gerry Adams had previously claimed his brother had been dumped from Sinn Féin when archive photographs clearly show him still active in the party.


A report has been given to the party's ruling Ard Chomhairle this morning. The party chairman says: "The local organisation was unaware of the allegation against Liam Adams and the circumstances of his departure from Sinn Féin in Louth. Clearly his admission to the party in Belfast should have been avoided. Gerry Adams has informed the party that he was not aware of Liam Adams's involvement in party work at this time.


Sinn Féin TD for Louth Arthur Morgan has also said that although Liam Adams was a party member he was never an officer. After the Sunday Tribune published photographs which contradicted him. They show Mr Adams with his brother and Sinn Féin's Co Louth candidate in the General Election, published in a local newspaper in June1997.This week Mr Morgan TD now changes his story and says Mr Adams true role had "slipped his mind". Gerry Adam's now says he learned yesterday that his brother had worked in west Belfast, adding he should not have done so.


Despite earlier saying he gave orders to have his brother dumped from the party he now says, "Had I known that he was in Sinn Féin in Belfast I would have acted to have him leave the party, Sinn Féin did not know of the allegations against Liam Adams and did nothing wrong. There was no cover-up by Sinn Féin." Sinn Fein said previously that when their president "moved to ensure that Liam Adams did not go forward as a candidate" in 1997, he did so "without involving the party locally or nationally".

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After Gerry Adams claimed he informed the party on his brother and ordered his expulsion, Liam Adams served initially as chair of the party's Louth district in 1996. He then moved back to Belfast and became chairperson of a Sinn Fein branch in the heart of his brother's west Belfast constituency, as well as chairperson, apparently without his brothers knowledge, the party now confirms that Liam Adams held "a number of positions" in the lower Andersonstown branch.


"The local organisation was unaware of the allegation against Liam Adams and the circumstances of his departure from Sinn Féin in Louth. Clearly his admission to the party in Belfast should have been avoided," a PSF statement says.
Strangely, Suzanne Breen, the northern editor of the Sunday Tribune newspaper, seems to know more about Sinn Fein's own procedures and regulations, than their own senior party members.


Ms. Breen says Mr Adams had broken his own party's rules.
"He could have said there were allegations against his brother, Liam," she said.
"Gerry Adams, by not doing so, has actually broken Sinn Fein's constitution which states when a member becomes aware of sexual allegations against another member they are bound to inform Sinn Fein's Ard Comhairle (party executive), Gerry Adams failed to do that."
Gerry Adams says he only found out on Thursday that his brother had re-involved himself with the party. Meanwhile young children in both parts of a divided Island remain totally vulnerable, to rape and abuse from a Church and States with proven track records of denial, abuse, child rape, secrets, lies, cover-ups, savagery and heartlessness.

Ireland's Shame

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We are asked to believe, that Gerry Adams, PSF President and MP for West Belfast, was not able to protect children in West Belfast, Dundalk or Donegal after his brother's 13 year old abused daughter asked for his help more than 21 years ago. Martin McGuinness deputy first minister, is photographed above with Liam Adams and it is inconceivable he wouldn't be aware of this whole matter. Children were the most vulnerable part of his constituency and they certainly remain vulnerable while Adams or McGuinness are in power.

Uncle Gerry admitted that he believed her all those years ago, which makes it inexplicable that his brother Liam was later allowed to work for several years with the young, in Adams's West Belfast constituency. If Gerry Adams's doesn't resign immediately like The bishops and the Robinsons, then I hope it doesn't fall to the Orange volunteers to have to burn him out of Belfast.

I understand his brother may be a sick man and that in an enlightened country, would be taken out of society immediately and given treatment for the safety of children and his own safety. I understand that Gerry Adams is human and makes mistakes like everyone else. However the denial of his failure in this instance and those around him, along with the arrogance of holding his senior positions is beyond belief and a disgrace of all senior members within his party that enable this to continue.

Ireland, its people and especially its children, deserve nothing less than his immediate resignation and a thorough criminal investigation of all collusion in this matter by the appropriate authority, whoever that may be. Anything less, after a 60 million euro inquiry and the recent resignation of 5 bishops, for exactly the same offence, is nothing short of a blind eye being shown to child rape and child abuse in Ireland. It is a mark of shame and disgrace on the formerly honourable name of Ireland, that will ring around the world for decades to come.


Modern Times


It is said we live in modern times,
In the civilised year of 'seventy nine,
But when I look around, all I see,
Is modern torture, pain, and hypocrisy.

In modern times little children die,
They starve to death, but who dares ask why?
And little girls without attire,
Run screaming, napalmed, through the night afire.

And while fat dictators sit upon their thrones,
Young children bury their parents' bones,
And secret police in the dead of night,
Electrocute the naked woman out of sight.

In the gutter lies the black man, dead,
And where the oil flows blackest, the street runs red,
And there was He who was born and came to be,
But lived and died without liberty.

As the bureaucrats, speculators and presidents alike,
Pin on their dirty, stinking, happy smiles tonight,
The lonely prisoner will cry out from within this tomb,
And tomorrow's wretch will leave its mother's womb!

- by Bobby Sands



BOBBY SANDS was twenty seven years old when he died on the sixty sixth day of hunger-strike in the H-Block prison hospital, Long Kesh, on the 5th May 1981. The young IRA Volunteer who had spent almost the last nine years of his short life in prison as a result of his Irish republican activities was, by the time of his death, world-famous having been elected to the british parliament and having withstood pressures, political and moral including an emissary from Pope John Paul II , for him to abandon his fast which was aimed at countering a criminalisation policy by the british government. His name became a household word in Ireland, and his sacrifice as did that of those who followed him overturned british propaganda on Ireland and had real effect in advancing the cause of Irish freedom.



The following is a contribution from MaryHedgehog, who's link is at the top right, the link didn't work properly !

Ireland's Uncivil War

Just as the Roman Catholic Church supports Adam's cover up of his
brother's Child abuse today and all of the Bishops who resigned over child
rapes recently, they also supported the fascist Blues shirts who went
to fight for Franco and the Free State forces at the start of the
Civil war in the south of Ireland. They declared it the lawful
government of the country, denouncing Anti-Treaty IRA and
excommunicating anti-treaty fighters. On 10 October 1922, the Catholic
Bishops of Ireland issued a formal statement, which was crucial to
Catholics in the south supporting the anti-treaty campaign,

"a system of murder and assassination of the National forces without
any legitimate authority... the guerrilla warfare now being carried on
by the Irregulars is without moral sanction and therefore the killing
of National soldiers is murder before God, the seizing of public and
private property is robbery, the breaking of roads, bridges and
railways is criminal. All who in contravention of this teaching,
participate in such crimes are guilty of grievous sins and may not be
absolved in Confession nor admitted to the Holy Communion if they
persist in such evil courses."


As a result of this and the support of the British Government, the
Free State government were enabled to expand its forces dramatically
after the start of the Civil war. Pro-treaty Collins, was able to
build an army which was to overwhelm their republican opponents.
British supplies of artillery, aircraft, armoured cars, machine guns,
small arms and ammunition were freely given to pro-treaty forces.
Their Army was 14,000 men by August 1922, it was 38,000 strong by the
end of 1922, it had swollen to 55,000 men and 3,500 officers at the
end of the war, far more than what the Irish state would ever need.
The Roman Catholic Church as opposed to the older traditional Celtic
Church has always been a powerful reactionary force of great cruelty
in Ireland, just as in Europe with its Inquisition and Crusaders.


Collins' most ruthless officers and men were recruited from the Dublin
"Active Service Unit" which Collins had commanded in the Irish War of
Independence and in particular from his assassination unit, "The
Squad". They were now known as the Dublin Guard. Towards the end of
the war, they were implicated in notorious atrocities against
anti-treaty guerrillas. Most of the National Army's officers were
Pro-Treaty IRA men, as were a substantial number of their soldiers.
Many of the new army's other recruits were unemployed veterans of the
First World War, where they had served in the Irish Division of the
British Army.



Former British Army officers were also recruited for their technical
expertise. A number of the senior Free State commanders such as Emmet
Dalton John T. Prout and W.R.E. Murphy had seen service as officers in
World War One, Dalton and Murphy in the British Army and Prout in the
US Army. The Republicans of that time claimed, that the Free State was
only a proxy force for Britain.

The final phase of the Civil War degenerated into a series of
atrocities that left a lasting legacy of bitterness in Irish politics.
The Free Staters began executing Republican prisoners on 17 November
1922, when five IRA men were shot by firing squad. In all, the Free
State conducted 77 official executions of anti-treaty prisoners during
the Civil War.


On 7 December 1922, four prominent Republicans who had been held since
the first week of the war, Rory O'Connor, Liam Mellows, Richard
Barrett and Joe McKelvey were executed. Free State troops,
particularly in County Kerry, where the guerrilla campaign was most
bitter, conducted the summary execution of captured anti-treaty
fighters. The most notorious example of this occurred at Ballyseedy,
where nine Republican prisoners were tied to a landmine, which was
detonated, killing eight and only leaving one, Stephen Fuller, who was
blown clear by the blast, to escape.The number of "unauthorised"
executions of Republican prisoners during the Irish Civil War war has
been put as high as 153.

British Government's Terrorism in Ireland

 British State Terrorism in Ireland with their loyalist death squads have been well documented in several high profile cases in Ireland.


British Government terrorism was institutionalized from the start of the troubles, when Britain, trained, armed and directed their paramilitary forces for use against the minority in the north east of Ireland. The McGurk's Bar Massacre of the 4th December 1971 was to be the first public bloody signpost of this terrorism that then led directly to Bloody Sunday, the New Lodge Six, the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and Omagh.

British Captain who Worked with Hitmen and Bombers all over Ireland, honoured with the British Empire Medal


Captain M's British Empire Medal was granted as a direct result of her undercover work in Ulster, proving her alleged illegal operations were sanctioned by military top brass and the government. Captain M, who was commissioned as a  captain in 1998 was directly answerable to Gordon Kerr.

Anything she did was ok by the establishment." Captain M arranged for two computers to be bought one for an assasin called Nelson and one for the FRU. Information held on the British military computer on potential targets could then be downloaded onto floppy disks for Nelson which he could  study at home and use to draw up assassination plans.  

Captain M a name used to avoid a Ministry of Defence gagging order allegedly handed information to loyalist killers which resulted in at least 14 deaths, including five Catholics 

with no terrorist links. These  are just a small example of  British terrorism between loyalist terrorists and the British State Forces in Ulster.

 Evidence found of British RUC/PSNI collusion in bombings



A two-year investigation, inspired by the Pat Finucane Centre when investigators talked to PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde and two members of the loyalist gang who carried out some of the killings on relatives of the victims. A panel of highly respected international investigators revealed overwhelming evidence of British Government collusion in the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. Over two years, investigators examined 25 separate cases involving the murder of 76 people which occurred all over Ireland during the Troubles. They concluded that members of the British forces the RUC/PSNI and UDR colluded with loyalists in decades of sectarian murders of Catholics. The British Government chose to ignore evidence made publicof it from the early 1970s. Investigators discovered that senior RUC/PSNI police were "extremely close" to loyalist paramilitaries but the warnings were ignored. In 24 of 25 cases investigated they found evidence of British forces collusion and recommended a public investigation to examine the murders. "As early as 1973, senior officials of the United Kingdom were put on notice of the dangerof the facts of sectarian violence by UDR soldiers using stolen UDR weapons, ammunition, and trained by British forces" the report stated. "At least by 1975, senior officials were also informed that some RUC/PSNI police officers were 'very close' to extremist paramilitaries." 






Thirty-three people were killed in the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. The British Government has refused to release files on the atrocities to the Irish Government. The panel determined collusion between the British forces and loyalist murder gangs in the July 1975 Miami Showband Massacre, when three of the band's musicians were shot dead by members of the UVF and UDR.




  Materials that Killed 33 people in Dublin and Monaghan Came from the British Army. 

Material for bombs that killed 33 people in Dublin and Monaghan came from the British Army, according to an official inquiry into the atrocities. The inquiry has been given evidence that army members supplied loyalist terrorists with explosives that had been confiscated by the army from the IRA and that these were used in the three bombs which exploded in Dublin during rush-hour traffic.




 The findings of the inquiry into the bombings, on May 17, 1974, are being written up by Mr Justice Henry Barron, a retired Irish judge. He has been forced to delay his inquiry repeatedly because British authorities have been slow to give him vital information. The report, due to be completed in April, will fuel persistent allegations that the bombings were engineered by undercover agents working inside loyalist paramilitary groups.




  More Evidence of British Government Sponsored Terrorism 

Metropolitan Police chief Sir John Stevens found that the British army and its agents were directly involved in the killing of civil rights lawyer Patrick Finucane in 1989. More evidence has come to light which shows that BritishForces infiltrated and dominated all Loyalist terrorist groups in Occupied Ireland was of staggering proportions.




 The Sunday Business Post concluded that "almost all of the Loyalist paramilitary activity over 30 years was largely, secretly and carefully controlled and organised by British intelligence". The Stevens' Report identified a man called Brian Nelson as being instrumental in the killing of Finucane in 1989. 




Nelson was an agent for British intelligence. The British Observer named Ned Greer as another British spy who was "at the helm of a death squad". Greer was a member of the army's Force Research Unit (FRU) operating inside the loyalist Ulster Defence Association. Greer passed information to select leading republicans to be murdered. These murders included councilor Eddie Fullerton in May 1991 and Padraig O'Seanachain in August 1991 in the Irish Republic..