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Fast and loose with facts?

Speaking on Radio 4’s Front Row, Phelps has now defended the dramatic choices of the 2017 adaptation, saying she had been “shocked” at how “brutal, remorseless and stark” the book was.

When asked about the criticism, which also focused on one character taking drugs on screen, she said: “I don’t think it plays fast and loose with it at all. All of it is there in the book.”

- BBC’s And Then There Were None does not play ‘fast and loose’ with Agatha Christie, writer says, Telegraph.co.uk, December 23, 2017.

2. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD has said that he told the British Prime Minister Theresa May she was playing fast and loose with the Good Friday Agreement in a desperate attempt to cling to power.

A Sinn Féin delegation led by Gerry Adams, which included Mary Lou McDonald, Michelle O’Neill and Foyle MP Elisha McCallion, met with the British Prime Minister in London today.

Following the meeting the Sinn Féin President said: "We told Prime Minister May and she and her government are in default of the Good Friday Agreement and that they have turned a blind eye to the disruptive actions of the DUP over a long time.

“Both the government and the DUP have refused to implement key agreements on language and equality rights and dealing with the legacy of the past.

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“We told the British Prime Minister that in our view she is playing fast and loose with the Good Friday Agreement in a desperate attempt to cling to power.