Last night, Gerry Adams admitted he regrets how the IRA dealt with rapists in a lengthy statement in response to allegations from Maíria Cahill in relation to an IRA "kangaroo court."
Ms Cahill first came to public attention when she claimed she had been raped by a leading Republican back in 1997, at the age of just 16.
She went on to say that Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams knew about her situation and met with her, but failed to report the matter to authorities.
However, Gerry Adams once more refuted Maíria’s allegations against himself and Sinn Féin in the statement, but he did concede that the IRA had 'made mistakes' in its efforts to fill what he called a policing 'vacuum' in the North.
Mr Adams admitted that IRA personnel were 'singularly ill-equipped' to deal with matters including child abuse and rape, and said 'victims were left without social service support and abusers without supervision'.
This morning, Newstalk Breakfast discussed the statement, declaring that it raised more questions than it answered:
Yesterday the Fianna Fail Leader Michael Martin used his annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration speech to criticise Sinn Fein over their handling of the Maria Cahill claims:
