‘Fr Alec for Pope!’ Gerry Adams wrote about peace priest Fr Reid

Gerry Adams said the IRA’s 1994 ceasefire would not have been possible without Fr Alec Reid CSsR, according to a letter he wrote to the rector of the Clonard Monastery at the time. Then Sinn Féin president, Mr Adams praised the whole Belfast-based Clonard Redemptorist community for their role in the peace process, signing off…