The BBC’s final defence was that there must be freedom to report on figures of historical importance and losing to Adams ...

UUP peer Lord Elliott has contrasted the sums of money handed out to bereaved relatives of murder victims with the sum ...

Gerry Adams, former leader of Ireland’s Sinn Féin party, has won a high-profile defamation lawsuit against the BBC at the ...

A High Court judge has directed the BBC to pay €50,000 damages, plus €250,000 legal costs, to former Sinn Féin president ...

Gerry Adams said he will donate the €100,000 he is to receive in damages from the BBC to charities that help children in Gaza, the homeless in Ireland and Irish language groups. Mr Adams took the BBC ...

May 30 (UPI) -- Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams Friday won $113,486 in a defamation lawsuit against the BBC. Adams ...

The long wait for reform of Ireland’s much-criticised defamation laws will be over by summer, a minister told Extra.ie ...

The former Sinn Féin leader was seeking damages over a story in which an anonymous contributor alleged he sanctioned the ...

Mr Adams took the BBC to court over a 2016 episode of its Spotlight programme, and an accompanying online story, which he ...

For years British and Irish journalists have treated Mr Adams’s denials as they would a claim that water isn’t wet. The ...

Mr Adams had claimed that the 2016 Spotlight programme and related article defamed him by falsely accusing him of giving “the ...

The BBC has lost the Gerry Adams libel case over the murder of Denis Donaldson and a Spotlight programme and will pay ...