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N Ireland’s Sinn Fein Reports Explosives Thrown at Former Leader’s Home

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - An explosive device was thrown overnight at the Belfast home of Gerry Adams, the former leader of the Irish republican Sinn Fein party, it said Saturday.
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Sinn Fein’s policing and justice spokesman Gerry Kelly in the statement slammed the attack a cowardly act, adding another explosive was hurled at the home of Irish pro-independence activist Bobby Storey.

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"These were reprehensible and cowardly attacks on the family homes of Gerry Adams and Bobby Storey. Grandchildren were in the driveway of Adams' home minutes before the attack," he said.

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He added the assaults were "desperate acts of increasingly desperate and irrelevant groups." Adams, a lawmaker in the Republic of Ireland, tweeted that all was well and no one had been hurt.

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