He is suing over a 2016 Spotlight programme and online report in which an anonymous source alleged the former Sinn Féin leader sanctioned the murder of a British agent, Denis Donaldson.

Mr Adams was awarded €100,000 (£84,000) damages, with the BBC also in line to pay his legal costs. The court found the 76-year-old was defamed in a story about the murder of Denis Donaldson.

The BBC has been ordered to pay €100,000 ($113,000) in damages to ex-Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in a libel case about the murder of an Irish MI5 informant. Responding, the BBC said today ...

Real IRA claim Donaldson murder The dissident Republican group, the Real IRA has claimed responsibility for the 2006 murder of Denis Donaldson in Co Donegal.

PA Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams outside the High Court in Dublin, Friday, May 30, 2025, after he was awarded 100,000 euro (84,000) in damages after winning his libel action against the ...

Gerry Adams is suing the BBC for libel following an allegation that he sanctioned the 2006 killing of West Belfast informer Denis Donaldson. Anthony Neeson @IrishEcho Sep 30, 2016 ...

In 2005, Mr Donaldson confessed he was a spy for British intelligence for two decades, before disappearing from Belfast. He was found dead in a small, rundown cottage in Glenties, County Donegal.

Adams said the BBC had wrongly claimed, based on an anonymous source, that he authorized the murder of Denis Donaldson, a British MI5 spy and former Sinn Fein official who was shot in the head in ...

Adams said the BBC had wrongly claimed, based on an anonymous source, that he authorized the murder of Denis Donaldson, a British MI5 spy and former Sinn Fein official who was shot in the head in 2006 ...