Séamus Dooley says the former Sinn Féin leader's libel win over the BBC shows the need for a review of Irish defamation laws.

Will Gerry Adams’ libel case win against the BBC hinder freedom of speech & create a chill factor for journalists? We hear ...

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has won a libel suit against the BBC over a claim he authorized the killing of an ...

May 30 (UPI) -- Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams Friday won $113,486 in a defamation lawsuit against the BBC. Adams ...

For years British and Irish journalists have treated Mr Adams’s denials as they would a claim that water isn’t wet. The ...

The BBC has been granted time to consider taking an appeal of a jury decision which found it had defamed Gerry Adams.

Mr Justice Alexander Owens agreed on Tuesday to give the BBC a stay on payment of the full €100,000 damages awarded to Mr Adams by a High Court jury ...

Eoin McCullough SC, for the BBC, said it is still considering whether to bring an appeal against the jury  decision and award ...

A High Court judge has ordered the BBC to pay Gerry Adams €50,000 – half of his landmark €100,000 defamation award – while the corporation considers mounting an appeal. Mr Justice Alexander Owens also ...

The BBC has been ordered to pay former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams 100,000 (£84,000) after he won a "resounding" libel ...