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Awarding damages to Gerry Adams would be ‘a cruel joke’, BBC lawyer says
Gerry Adams is engaging in “a cynical attempt to launder his reputation” by suing the BBC, a jury has been told. Mr Adams is ...
Independent.ie5d
Jury urged to award Gerry Adams ‘very substantial’ damages of €200,000 over BBC Spotlight programme
A High Court jury has been urged to award Gerry Adams “very substantial” damages of €200,000 for defamation over a BBC ...
RTÉ Ireland5d
Court told action an attempt to launder Adams' reputation
Lawyers for the BBC have told the High Court that a defamation action by former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams is a cynical ...
Irish Examiner6d
Senator tells Gerry Adams defamation case he was known to politicians as leading member of the IRA
Michael McDowell said he had never met anyone in the 'political process or the media' who did not believe Mr Adams was in the ...
Extra.ie on MSN5d
Gerry Adams’s reputation is as a ‘warmonger’ and ‘peace-taker’, say BBC witnesses
Gerry Adams has a reputation as a ‘warmonger’ and a ‘peace-taker’, the High Court heard yesterday. Ann Travers, whose sister Mary Travers was shot dead by the IRA during an attempt to kill her father ...
The Independent13d
BBC reporter denies excluding ‘unhelpful comments’ about Adams claim
Spotlight reporter Jennifer O’Leary at the High Court in Dublin, where former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams is bringing a ...
The Irish Times17d
Gerry Adams defamation trial: laughs from the jury, a judge’s intervention and a ‘very fine story’ about a hedgehog
Gerry Adams, the former president of Sinn Féin ... after the IRA had announced the previous year that its members should “go home” and that it was going to decommission its weapons, he ...