On March 16th, 1926, just over 100 years ago, a young Kerryman, Michael Quill, arrived at Ellis Island in New York on board the SS Pittsburgh. His cousin met him and brought him to East 104th Street in Harlem to live with his relations. The next day he watched the St Patrick’s Day parade on … Read more
James Nesbitt is explaining why his work with the families of the Disappeared means so much to him when he is overtaken by emotion; his voice cracks, he breaks off his sentence, he apologises. “Even now, I find it – I get very moved, sorry.” He turns it into a joke. “I cry more than … Read more
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has welcomed the decision by three IRA bombing victims to drop their civil action in the high court in London against him. The case was taken in May 2022 by Barry Laycock, injured in the Manchester Arndale bomb in 1996; Jonathan Ganesh, injured in Canary Wharf that year, and John … Read more
Main Points Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is testifying at the Royal Courts of Justice in London again today in a case alleging he is liable for IRA bombs between 1973 and 1996. Adams (77) strongly denies any involvement and has repeatedly rejected claims he was ever in the IRA. This is a civil … Read more
Main points Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is testifying at the Royal Courts of Justice in London today in a case alleging he is liable for IRA bombs between 1973 and 1996. John Clark, Jonathan Ganesh and Barry Laycock, who were injured in IRA bombings in London and Manchester in 1973 and 1996, are … Read more
The voice of IRA bomber and hunger striker Dolours Price, who died lonely and alone in January 2013 aged 62, filled the high-vaulted cavern of court number 16 in London’s Royal Courts of Justice. Her life and actions have featured again and again in the civil action being taken by three victims of IRA bombings … Read more
Members of the IRA gave interviews to the BBC in the early 1980s because of “their complete and utter astonishment” at Gerry Adams’s “brazen, unequivocal and unambiguous denial of his role” in the organisation, a court has heard. The charge was made by the 40-year veteran of reporting on Northern Ireland, British journalist John Ware, … Read more
Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was the leader of the IRA until “the mid-2000s, and it was only then that he took a backwards step”, a senior former Police Service of Northern Ireland officer has told the High Court in London. Former detective superintendent Timothy Hanley, who headed the PSNI’s serious crime squad until … Read more
The true significance of the role played by Gerry Adams in the IRA did not become clear until he was arrested in 1973 alongside leading IRA figures, a former British army officer has told a UK court. The retired officer, testifying from behind a screen and identified only as witness A, was giving evidence on … Read more
If the defining image of the first day of Gerry Adams’s court case was him in a bulletproof vest, the second day’s image was him in an Aran woolly geansaí. Rarely, if ever, has RTÉ’s Reeling in the Years been played in the king’s bench division of the high court in London. But there it … Read more