Jurors watched the former Sinn Féin president slip into defence mode in his case against broadcaster
Gerry Adams versus the BBC: Sunday Independent senior journalist Mark Tighe looks back on the first week of the former Sinn Féin leader’s defamation action
Two different sides of Gerry Adams were on show to a High Court jury last week. For the first three days of Adams’s defamation action against the BBC the jury was introduced to Gerry The Peacemaker.
The 76-year-old was in avuncular mode, explaining the social inequalities and discrimination that sparked the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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