Downstream: Ash Sarkar meets Gerry Adams

Downstream: Ash Sarkar meets Gerry Adams

Author: Novara Media July 28, 2025 Duration: 1:16:22

This interview would once have been illegal to broadcast in the UK. For many, Gerry Adams is a peacemaker, but for others he remains inseparable from the violence and trauma of the Troubles.

Ash Sarkar travels to the James Connolly Centre in West Belfast to talk to Adams about the slow rise of his party, Sinn Féin, the emotional demands of leading a political movement, and his responsibility to the victims of IRA violence.

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