Gerry Adams Wife: Meet Collette McArdle
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Gerry Adams wife-Irish Republican Politician, Gerard Adams was born on October 6th, 1948 in the Ballymurphy district of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Michael Hannaway, Adams’ maternal great-grandfather, also served in the IRB during the 1860s and 1870s bombing campaigns in England.
Billy, the son of Michael, worked as an electoral agent for Éamon de Valera in West Belfast during the 1918 Irish general election.
He was educated by the La Salle brothers at St. Finian’s Primary School on Falls Road. He attended St Mary’s Christian Brothers Grammar School after passing the eleven-plus exam in 1960.
He graduated from St. Mary’s with six O-levels and went into the service industry. He became more and more involved in the Irish Republican movement, joining Sinn Féin and Fianna Éireann in 1964 after the Divis Street riots during the general election campaign of that year radicalized him.
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Gerry Adams career
Adams is a Republican politician from Ireland who served as president of Sinn Féin from November 13, 1983, until February 10, 2018, and from 2011 to 2020 as a Teachta Dála (TD) representing Louth.
He practiced abstentionism as the Belfast West constituency’s Member of Parliament (MP) of the British Parliament from 1983 to 1992 again from 1997 to 2011.
Prior to his 1983 election to Parliament, Adams had been a well-known figure in Irish activism from his initial involvement in Irish republicanism in the late 1960s.
In a failed assassination attempt in 1984, John Gregg and other gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) gravely wounded Adams.
He played a significant role in the Northern Ireland peace process starting in the late 1980s. He first engaged in negotiations with head of the Social Democratic and Labor Party (SDLP), John Hume, and later with the Irish and British governments.
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He persuaded Sinn Féin to abandon its long-standing abstentionist stance toward the Oireachtas, the Republic of Ireland’s parliament, in 1986. It was given seats in the D’Hondt power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) said in 2005 that its violent campaign was terminated and that it was now only focused on promoting peaceful politics.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland detained Adams in 2014 for four days so that they may question him over the kidnapping and murder of Jean McConville in 1972.
He was freed without being charged, and a file was handed to the Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Service, which eventually declared there was not enough evidence to bring charges against him.
Adams declared in November 2017 that he would leave his position as Sinn Féin leader in 2018 and would not seek reelection to his seat in the Irish parliament in 2020.
On February 10, 2018, Mary Lou McDonald succeeded him at a special ardfheis (party conference).
Who is Gerry Adams’ wife?
Gerry Adams is married to Collette McArdle. They have been married since 1971 and have a son named Gearoid Adams.
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
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