Full coverage: defamation

During cross examination at his defamation trial, Gerry Adams could not recall certain IRA atrocities including the death toll of Bloody Friday.

IRA volunteers who obeyed the instructions of their leadership in 2005 that the armed conflict was "done and dusted" were now being told by the BBC “that was all a con”, the former Sinn Fein President told the High Court jury.

BBC Spotlight allegedly relied on a single anonymous source to claim the former Sinn Féin president sanctioned the death of IRA spy Denis Donaldson and should have come with a health warning, Adams's defamation trial hears.

CNN is seeking to pause the Irish proceedings and have the matter tried in the United States. The defamation suit relates to a story alleging the Trump White House influenced the awarding of a lease of mid-band spectrum to “Rivada”.

The businessman is suing the US network over a news story in October 2020 alleging the US Department of Defence came under pressure from the Trump White House to award a lease of mid-band spectrum to Rivada.

How did a lawyer from Belfast come to corner the market in international libel law? In this extract from his forthcoming book, From Holywood to Hollywood, Paul Tweed talks about the cases that helped make his name as the go-to lawyer for politicians, religious leaders and celebrities.

The businessman behind Centz discount stores and the collapsed Iceland frozen food chain in Ireland has initiated High Court proceedings against online publication The Journal.

News network CNN has so far failed to prove the United States is a more appropriate forum to hear the businessman's defamation claim, the High Court found.

Should interviewees be warned to take out personal media insurance before appearing on television or in publications, the former presidential candidate asked the Supreme Court following a struck-out defamation suit?

The High Court has found it unnecessary for the Nobel-prize winning economist to testify as an expert witness for The Irish Times, which is defending its article on grounds of fair and reasonable publication on a matter of public interest.