Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has won a defamation case against the BBC. Courts Reporter Vivienne Traynor takes a look ...

WHEN I was younger I had a stammer. I don’t know what age I was. Somewhere between seven and ten perhaps. A youngster! I grew ...

Gerry Adams is seeking “very substantial” damages of at least 200,000 euro (£168,000) from the BBC, the jury in his libel ...

The British public service broadcaster has argued it would be a “cruel joke” to award the former Sinn Fein president with any ...

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Mr Gallagher said if the jury were to award damages, the circulation would certainly come into the moderate range. He said ...

Mr Adams is suing the BBC over what he claims was a “grievous smear” against him. He says a BBC Spotlight programme, and an accompanying online story, defamed him by alleging he sanctioned the killing ...

A BBC programme which aired a claim that Gerry Adams sanctioned the killing of a spy would “probably” not have breached broadcasting regulations and was not “unfair or unjust”, a media ...

It was “Martin”, wearing a baseball cap and with his appearance obscured by a piece of glass, who alleged in a 2016 Spotlight documentary that Gerry Adams had authorised the 2006 killing of ...

A BBC journalist behind a programme at the centre of Gerry Adams’ defamation action against ... programme by an anonymous contributor dubbed Martin – was corroborated by five different sources.

In the programme, a man identified as “Martin ... Adams’s legal team says his reputation as a “peacemaker” had suffered an “unjustified” attack because of the broadcast of the BBC programme, and the ...

It is “likely” a source who made allegations against Gerry Adams in a BBC documentary ... of five other sources corroborated Martin’s claim that Mr Adams would have signed off on the ...