Handshakes, photographs, and almost instantaneous texts of congratulations captured the jubilance among Gerry Adams’s lawyers as the news sank in outside Court 24 that they had won a resounding victory for their client. A vindicated Adams remained sombre, however. Legs crossed, he sat at the back of the room and looked at his phone as the jury verdict landed after six hours and thirty-nine minutes of deliberations that began on Thursday morning. The jury had five issues to assess and they found in Adams’s favour on each count. They concluded that words used in a BBC Spotlight programme and a…

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