Mark Tighe: More bizarre moments in high-stakes trial as Gerry Adams takes on BBC

Mark Tighe: More bizarre moments in high-stakes trial as Gerry Adams takes on BBC

As Declan Doyle, one of Gerry Adams’s senior counsel, cross-examined the editor of BBC’s Spotlight programme last week, he asked her about directions she had given the actor who voiced “Martin”, the pseudonym for an ex-IRA/Sinn Féin man turned British spy.

Law and Media Round Up – 19 May 2025

The defamation trial in the claim by former president of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams, against the BBC, continued this week at Dublin High Court. Adams claims the BBC wrongly alleged he sanctioned the 2006 murder of informer Denis Donaldson and damaged his reputation as a peacemaker. The BBC reporter in charge of the programme, Jennifer O’Leary gave evidence that “the journalism was done in good faith,” and the allegation “wasn’t treated recklessly.” …