The question came late on Thursday morning. Lawyers for the BBC put it to Gerry Adams that the reason he never sued for defamation over claims he was in the IRA and its army council up until 2005 was because it was true. Earlier in his evidence, the former Sinn Féin president denied ever being in the Provisional IRA and said he had not taken legal action against media outlets that claimed otherwise, as his lawyers repeatedly advised him he would not get a fair trial. During his cross-examination on Thursday morning, Paul Gallagher, senior counsel for the BBC, put…

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