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BBC granted time to consider appeal in Gerry Adams case before paying all costs

The BBC has been granted time to consider taking an appeal of a jury decision which found it had defamed Gerry Adams, before paying all costs and damages to the former Sinn Fein leader. Mr Adams took the BBC to court over a 2016 episode of its ...

03 Jun 2025 at 15:38

Northern Ireland

Adams had reputation of being in IRA Army Council, ex-attorney general says

Gerry Adams was “reputed to have become a member of the Army Council of the IRA”, a former attorney general has told his libel trial against the BBC. Mr Adams is suing the BBC over what he has deemed to be a “grievous smear” made by a ...

21 May 2025 at 15:46

Northern Ireland

Jury begins deliberating in Gerry Adams’ libel action against BBC

A jury has begun deliberating on Gerry Adams’ libel action against the BBC. Former Sinn Fein leader Mr Adams alleges a BBC Spotlight programme, and an accompanying online story, defamed him by alleging he sanctioned the killing of ...

29 May 2025 at 10:35

Northern Ireland

Jury resumes deliberations over Gerry Adams libel action against BBC

The jury in Gerry Adams’ libel action against the BBC has entered its second day of deliberations. The former Sinn Fein leader alleges a BBC Spotlight programme, and an accompanying online story, defamed him by alleging he ...

30 May 2025 at 11:03

Spotlight - Kieran Beville

Spotlight: Artist full of Dutch courage - Kieran Beville

Originally born (1990) in the Netherlands, Lotte Bender came to Ireland when she was six years old and grew up near Ardpatrick. Her parents are both Dutch and love the countryside but rural property in the Netherlands is ...

08 Jul 2021 at 14:00

Spotlight - Kieran Beville

Spotlight: It is simply Ciarán - poet and author

When I was a teenager I spent several months on a farm near the village of Kilmoganny Co. Kilkenny, situated just five miles from the nearest town, Callan. During that time I became aware of some interesting things ...

10 Jun 2021 at 14:00

Spotlight - Kieran Beville

Spotlight: Kathy -You’ve been framed - Kieran Beville

Kathy Tiernan is a founding member and co-ordinator of ArtLimerick – a group of artists who have the desire and passion to build a community around Limerick Art and aim to promote emerging and established local ...

08 Apr 2021 at 15:00

Spotlight - Kieran Beville

Spotlight: Historically informed performances - Kieran Beville

LOCAL musicians have created a new organisation to support historically informed performance in Limerick and its environs. March 21 is the confluence of a number of notable events – it is the spring equinox, ...

11 Mar 2021 at 15:00

Spotlight - Kieran Beville

Spotlight: Making art in the digital age - Kieran Beville

A generation ago in Limerick and elsewhere throughout Ireland children used to read and swap comics. I remember ‘progressing’ from the gateway visuals and childish stories of The Beano and The Dandy to the ...

04 Mar 2021 at 16:10

Spotlight - Kieran Beville

Spotlight: Keeping alive our literary traditions alive - Kieran Beville

The pandemic has impacted on all of us in various ways. Covid restrictions are especially difficult for business and artistic communities locally, nationally and internationally. Many artists, writers and ...

25 Feb 2021 at 15:00

Northern Ireland

BBC to pay Gerry Adams 100,000 euros in defamation case

The BBC has been ordered to pay former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams 100,000 euros (£84,000) after he won a “resounding” libel victory over the broadcaster. Mr Adams took the BBC to court over an episode ...

30 May 2025 at 16:07

Northern Ireland

BBC will not appeal against Adams’ defamation case victory

The BBC will not appeal over Gerry Adams’ defamation victory against the organisation. Mr Adams, a former president of Sinn Fein, said there needed to be “substantial reform” of the broadcaster. Mr ...

13 Jun 2025 at 20:23

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