article_snippet: Gerry Adams is facing calls to apologise to the family of a man who was shot three times in an IRA punishment attack .
article_snippet: Sinn Fein is facing calls to apologise to the family of a man who bled to death after being shot three times in an IRA punishment attack.
article_snippet: Andrew Kearney said  Gerry Adams privately apologised for the killing of the father-of-one but has refused to do so publicly.
article_snippet: Speaking as part of an RTÉ documentary about paramilitary 'punishment attacks', His sister Eleanor King said: ' Gerry Adams should have come forward and told the IRA what to do. '
article_snippet: And in my opinion, if  Gerry Adams had done that, even if  Gerry Adams didn't call for anybody to be arrested or anything, but just even the public apology and the public acceptance, it would have caused the family a lot less heartache over the years.'
article_snippet: His sister Eleanor King said the family had been republicans the family whole lives and that His sister Eleanor King mother Maureen welcomed Gerry Adams 'with open arms' after His sister Eleanor King son had been killed. '
article_snippet: The first thing her son told us was that her son was extending an apology from the top of the republican movement,' His sister Eleanor King said.
article_snippet: Sinn Féin MLA Alex Maskey told the programme that Gerry Adams ' acknowledges meeting the family but is unaware of what was said.
highlights_snippet: His sister Eleanor King has called for a public apology from Gerry Adams .
  