Mick Clifford: Gerry Adams's case against the BBC shows rewriting of the past continues apace
Gerry Adams may have won a defamation case — but the shadow of the Provisional IRA's violent legacy remains long
Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams outside the High Court in Dublin after he was awarded €100,000 damages after winning his libel action against the BBC. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA
A jury decided that he had been defamed in a BBC Spotlight programme which had alleged that he had sanctioned the murder of informer Denis Donaldson in 2006. Mr Donaldson had been unmasked as an informer months previous to his murder in a cottage in Donegal. The BBC programme and an accompanying website article was published in 2016.
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