Gerry Adams has rejected a suggestion that he was a senior IRA member released from internment as a precondition to talks aimed at securing a truce between it and the British army in 1972.

For the second time in his ongoing defamation case against the BBC, lifelong republican Gerry Adams found himself sitting in a Dublin courtroom watching footage from the conflict years.

Former Irish republican leader Gerry Adams won a libel case against the BBC on Friday, and was awarded 100,000 euros ...

The BBC has opened its defence in a libel case brought by Gerry Adams, who claims he was defamed in a broadcast and article which alleged he sanctioned the murder of a British agent. Eoin ...

The High Court has heard that allegations made in a BBC Spotlight programme about the former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams were corroborated by as many as five other people. Lawyers for the BBC ...

Gerry Adams has defended the IRA's campaign of violence during the Troubles and declined to name any of its members during his latest evidence at his libel trial against the BBC. Mr Adams is back ...

Gerry Adams had a reputation of “seriousness and dependability”, a US congressmen who worked with President Bill Clinton on the peace process has told the former Sinn Féin leader’s libel ...

Gerry Adams versus the BBC: Sunday Independent senior journalist Mark Tighe looks back on the first week of the former Sinn Féin leader's defamation action Mark Tighe Sun 4 May 2025 at 12:53 ...

A former Sinn Fein official who was murdered after being revealed to be an informer was thrown “to the wolves” by security services, Gerry Adams has told a libel trial. Denis Donaldson was ...

Jurors watched the former Sinn Féin president slip into defence mode in his case against broadcaster Gerry Adams versus the BBC: Sunday Independent senior journalist Mark Tighe looks back on the ...

Gerry Adams back in court as BBC defamation case continues Gerry Adams has claimed under oath that a chief of staff of the Provisional IRA was “mistaken” when he stated the former Sinn Féin ...

Mr Adams had previously told the court he did not sue over allegations repeatedly made against him that he was in the IRA and sat on its army council because he was advised by his solicitors he ...