Clinton's Sinn Fein handshake gamble

BILL Clinton defied the White House by publicly shaking Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams' hand on his historic 1995 Northern Ireland trip, newly released documents reveal.

- BY RECORD REPORTER

The then US president was pictured being greeted by the prominent Republican as the pair met on the Falls Road in Belfast in November of that year. But according to files published by the National Archives in Dublin, Peter Bell of the Northern Ireland Office had indicated “the Americans would prefer to avoid a handshake photograph between th