
Jury in Adams' libel case against the BBC to consider verdict next week
Gerry Adams is suing the BBC over a 2016 story in which it was alleged he sanctioned the murder of Denis Donaldson.
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Gerard Adams is a retired Irish Republican politician who was the president of Sinn Féin between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth from 2011 to 2020. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he won election as a Member of Parliament (MP) of the UK Parliament for the Belfast West constituency, but followed the Sinn Féin policy of abstentionism.
Gerry Adams is suing the BBC over a 2016 story in which it was alleged he sanctioned the murder of Denis Donaldson.