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Wed 11 Nov 2007Murder victim's father accuses AdamsThe father of Paul Quinn (21), who was clubbed to death by eight men on a Monaghan farm last month, has accused Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams of blackening his son's name with allegations of criminality and rushing to the defence of the Provisional IRA, who he believes was involved in his son's murder.Speaking after a meeting of some 50 locals in his home near Cullyhanna, Stephen Quinn said Adams' suggestion that his son was a criminal had caused the family a huge amount of pain.