Labour's plan for replacing the controversial Troubles legacy act has taken its first formal step in Parliament, with the secretary of state insisting it must be given a "chance to succeed". On ...

Hilary Benn said that draft laws to address issues highlighted by the Adams case was “forthcoming”. A Supreme Court judgment in 2020 paved the way for the former Sinn Fein president to secure ...

Gerry Adams has long lived in the eye of a political storm. For decades, the former Sinn Féin president has been a central and controversial figure in the story of Northern Ireland’s peace process, ...

Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams outside the High Court in Dublin, Friday, May 30, 2025, after he was awarded 100,000 euro (84,000) in damages after winning his libel action against the BBC.

Is Gerry Adams, one of Ireland’s most famous faces, a bold peacemaker or a merciless terrorist? That’s the question a Dublin jury has had to confront for the past month. Its decision, reached on May ...

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 ...