Last week’s unanimous decision by the UK Supreme Court quashing Gerry Adams’s convictions for twice trying to escape from internment in Long Kesh in 1973 sparked predictable outrage from Ulster Unionist politicians. The fact that it was their party leader, Brian Faulkner, who in 1971 insisted on the efficacy of internment as the way to… Read more »
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