During his second day of cross examination, the former Sinn Féin president was grilled by BBC lawyers on IRA informers and the disappeared. He called Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing a book “written by a total opportunist”.
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.
Given the political discourse in recent weeks, a conversation between the US Ambassador to Ireland and four major participants in the peace process was an important reminder that what happened in Northern Ireland in April 1998 is the political success story of our times.
McCue Jury won a major settlement for bereaved families against Real IRA Omagh bombers. But can it pin IRA bombings on the ex-Sinn Féin leader?
Long before empathy enjoyed its current status as an important human quality, Tommie Gorman was showing an ability to share and understand the feelings of others.
Sinn Féin and its associates are among those who will never tell the full truth about the Troubles. As they come close to power in the south, this will reveal some uncomfortable realities, writes Tommie Gorman.
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