Adams ‘knew IRA would fail in 1987’

GERRY Adams was said to have been working on a peace strategy for Northern Ireland in early 1987 – 11 years before the Good Friday Agreement that helped bring peace was signed.

The Sinn Fein president apparently thought the IRA campaign would fail and saw the armed struggle as a ‘political liability’, Irish National Archives files reveal.

The revelations come in a diplomat’s 1987 report based on information passed on by Catholic Bishop Cahal Daly.