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20th March 2016
12:22pm GMT

Confirmation of my invite 2 White House Reception. From the White House. pic.twitter.com/lMTVXp05MP
— Gerry Adams (@GerryAdamsSF) March 16, 2016
My invite 2 The White House. Just saying. pic.twitter.com/0fGax1LMhB — Gerry Adams (@GerryAdamsSF) March 16, 2016Now it has emerged that Mr. Adams was denied entry due to an IRA report on criminality that was sanctioned by the British Government in the aftermath of the Kevin McGuigan murder. A report in the Sunday Independent says that the refusal was directly linked to October's report which stated that the Provisional IRA still exists and is actively involved in organised crime. However, the official line on the refusal from the US Secret Service was an “administrative input error”.
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