A southern Irish man whose prison officer father was murdered by the IRA has urged Gerry Adams to give the 100,000 euro damages he won from the BBC to charity

The former Sinn Féin leader sued the BBC after a 2016 report, in which a source alleged Adams sanctioned the murder of a British agent.

BBC management must reflect on the outcome of the Gerry Adams libel case and avoid knee-jerk reactions to the verdict, a Sinn Féin minister has said. Stormont’s Finance Minister John O’Dowd said he welcomed the outcome of the high-profile case in Dublin’s High Court.