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Those held were overwhelmingly nationalists or republicans; not all were members of paramilitary organisations. While Adams was declined entry to the get-together, his party deputy leader, Mary Lou McDonald, and Sinn Féin’s Northern Ireland deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, were both admitted. These earlier amnesties included early release for prisoners – a key element of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement implemented by the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998. Along with the cessation of extradition requests, there has also been widespread use of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy in Northern Ireland – at least 418 royal pardons were issued between 1979 and 2002, many for terrorists. At a two-day internal conference in the Irish Republic, Adams told party activists he wanted to implement a “planned process of generational change”.

Gerry Adams denies he was consulted on what he calls an alleged IRA army council decision or that he had any final say in the matter being sanctioned. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters Sinn Fein had a virtual "diners' club" organised during Stormont's lengthy peace process talks, former president Gerry Adams said. The second development of significance was the Government’s commitment to commission a Public History of the Troubles – a professional study based upon research in official archives. He was rearrested in July 1973 in Belfast and taken to the Maze, also known as Long Kesh detention centre. On Christmas Eve 1973 he was one of four detainees caught attempting to break out. A hole had been cut in a perimeter fence and all four men were already out of the prison.Significantly, both the DUP and the UUP were minor players in these debates. Indeed, in the case of R v Adams the heavy lifting was done by distinguished lawyers and civil servants – and not by populists. In the heart of Westminster, there is still a deep-seated consciousness of the legitimacy of what the State was trying to do at the height of the Troubles. The party, alongside other more militant republicans, however, continues to revere one of the most controversial figures in 19th century Irish republicanism, John Mitchel. Adams and other Sinn Féin representatives have to regularly go through additional searches and scrutiny when travelling to and from the US. Intriguingly, the Labour Party did not oppose this amendment – though it remains opposed to the main Bill.

Adams is one of the co-architects alongside McGuinness of an IRA ceasefire, which within three years becomes a permanent cessation of violence. 1997 His double was driven to the Maze where the plan was that he would be swapped for Adams in a visiting hut. Prison staff had been alerted, however, and Adams was arrested in the car park of the jail. He was later sentenced to 18 months in jail for the first escape attempt and an additional three years for the second attempt, after two separate trials before single judges sitting without a jury. Having led Sinn Féin since 1983, Adams will hand over power to the Dublin-born Irish MP Mary Lou McDonald at a special delegate conference next Saturday.Documents released to the public records office under the 30 years rule have since revealed that the government knew there had been a procedural irregularity in relation to the detention of Adams and other republican detainees who had tried to escape with him from the heavily guarded internment camp. The amendment is a clear rebuke to the legacy of the late Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore who gave the judgment for the court – who arguably turned into the persistently most anti-State judge to sit on the Supreme Court of recent times.