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

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.

May 30 (UPI) -- Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams Friday won $113,486 in a defamation lawsuit against the BBC. Adams claimed in court that the BBC defamed him in a documentary and online article that said Adams had sanctioned the murder of former Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson.