Man's exile over after lobbying Adams at No 10
Exile Joseph McCloskey got Mr Adams' attention by demonstrating outside Downing Street last month when Mr Adams was at No 10 for talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The two men later had talks in the House of Commons.
Mr McCloskey's troubles apparently started after an incident in a pub when he got into a row with a prominent IRA member.
The 41-year-old McCloskey, his wife and six children, aged 2-11, fled Derry in fear.
They set up home at a secret address in England in April last year after an incident outside his Derry home when, after the bar incident, an alleged IRA punishment gang had to be turned away from the house by gunfire.
Mr McCloskey and his family were remaining silent yesterday, saying only that the exile's case had been ''resolved''.
Shortly before the suspension of devolution in Northern Ireland, Mr McCloskey's exile was one of a range of incidents cited by Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble as proof of the IRA's continued armed activity.
Mr McCloskey's return home was welcomed by Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness.
''I am very pleased, if he is here, that he no longer feels he is under threat from anyone," said Mr McGuinness.
He said if Mr McCloskey wanted to meet him, he was willing to see him.
But Mr McGuinness added: ''I think by this stage it is probably safe to say that if he is back on the streets of Derry and living his life with his family, then he is content and there is nothing more to say about it.''
In September Mr McCloskey's uncle - who was with him at his Shantallow home when it was attacked by the alleged IRA gang - was shot in both legs in an attack police have blamed on the IRA.
Danny McBrearty was driving a coach load of pensioners home from a day out across the border in Co Donegal when his vehicle was stopped in the city and he was shot.
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