Gerry Adams

Former Sinn Féin president tells judge the IRA attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher was ‘legitimate’

BBC Spotlight programme lacked sufficient editorial veracity to be published, witness called by Adams’s team tells court

Mr Justice Alexander Owens intervenes before former Sinn Féin leader responds to the allegation

Former Sinn Féin leader has taken High Court action against the broadcaster over claims he sanctionder murder of Denis Donaldson

Judge tells jury claims made in documentaries they are being shown may be relevant to the issue of Adams’s reputation

Court hears Adams continues to work with families of three men ‘disappeared’ by the IRA during Troubles who have not been found

Unseemly bickering between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael suggests absence of sense of purpose that might at least ameliorate crisis over course of Coalition’s term

A perennial rule of politics comes to mind for former Fine Gael leader

Jury in defamation action against the BBC shown documentary from 2016 that Adams claims ‘maliciously defamed’ him

Former Sinn Féin leader claims 2016 programme defamed him by falsely accusing him of sanctioning killing of

Second day of defamation action against the BBC hears former Sinn Féin leader decry alleged ‘hatchet job’ broadcast

James Browne’s intervention on appointment has already led to a thinly veiled rebuke from a spokesman for Simon Harris

Former Sinn Féin leader describes formative years in 1960s Belfast to High Court in Dublin

Former Sinn Féin leader argues attack on his reputation over informer’s death

Former Sinn Féin leader alleges he was defamed in a 2016 BBC Spotlight programme

Story of Brian Stack’s killing and its aftermath is an important and bleak retrospective on Ireland during the Troubles

Former Sinn Féin leader claims BBC falsely alleged he sanctioned killing of British spy Denis Donaldson

Mary Lou McDonald knows she can’t afford to oversee yet another poor performance - but can the party credibly sit this one out?

Sinn Féin has faced criticism for its tributes to Brendan McFarlane, who died last month

He became a firm supporter of the peace process

Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane led a mass break-out in September 1983

‘I will continue to pursue this case. I have no personal interest in compensation for myself.’

Gerry Adams jokingly referred to him as ‘teddy bear’ but Howell was an authoritative presence whose word carried serious weight in the highest echelons of republicanism

Former Sinn Féin leader and other former internees may seek compensation under Troubles legislation

McDonald, Michelle O’Neill and Gerry Adams took turns carrying strategist and negotiator’s coffin to Belfast cemetery

Trusted adviser to Gerry Adams was a senior member of the party’s backroom team in negotiations that led to the Belfast Agreement

New taoiseach caused concern as IRA grappled with ceasefire and decommissioning decisions, papers show

Arrival of Sinn Féin members as elected representatives in 1980s met with caution and secrecy by officials

Kidnapping of dissident Tohill in 2004 heightened tensions, with McDowell comparing Sinn Féin to Nazis

Bill Clinton overruled objections to let Gerry Adams fundraise – and to celebrate St Patrick’s Day in White House

Disclosure ignited ‘all kinds’ of conspiracy theories about who was being protected and who eliminated

IRA Army Council management by Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern’s referendum worries and unionists’ mistrust are revealed in documents

The observation that ‘the past is never dead – it’s not even past’ seems especially true in Northern Ireland

The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable

Sinn Féin manifesto's bizarre plans for an investigation into RTÉ’s coverage of the conflict in Gaza are part of a worrying pattern

Nine-part series Say Nothing deals with abduction and murder of Belfast mother by Provisional IRA in December 1972

Television review: Adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe book retraces abduction and murder of Jean McConville and experiences of IRA bomber Dolours Price

New drama series links former Sinn Féin president to deaths of Jean McConville and three others but Adams says accusations based on claims from ‘anti-peace process republicans’

Memoirs of three people who committed to their take on a better world, with each subject’s political gravity falling to the left

Say Nothing covers a broad sweep of Troubles history, from civil rights marches in 1969 to the arrest of Gerry Adams for questioning about the murder of Jean McConville. It’s a story about the costs of violence ‘and the way they echo down the years’