Gerry Adams' claim that his libel case was about "putting manners" on the BBC was chilling and unfair under the circumstances, the Irish secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has said.

For years British and Irish journalists have treated Mr Adams’s denials as they would a claim that water isn’t wet. The statement is reported, but almost no one believes it. Despite thousands of references to his alleged IRA activities over the years,

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams won his libel suit against the BBC on Friday over a claim that he authorized the killing of an informant inside the Irish republican movement. A jury at the High Court in Dublin ruled in Adams’ favor and awarded him 100,