Gerry Adams legal case against BBC due before Dublin court

Mr Adams has denied the allegation that he had any involvement in ordering the murder

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams. File picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams’s court case against the BBC over allegations about the murder of an MI5 spy is due to begin.

Claims were made in a BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight programme in 2016 over who sanctioned the killing of British spy Denis Donaldson.