Eventually, in 1983, after a particularly strong denunciation, Gerry Adams took up the cudgels with the Bishop and challenged him to …outline the hierarchy’s attitude to the injustices of partition. I challenged him to give us his views on British occupation; on the methods of pacification and repression deployed by the British government in our country. I called on him to stop condemning the IRA and to apply himself instead to developing solutions to the problems which faced us.
