Gerry Adams welcomes 'emphatic end' to court claim over IRA bombings

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2026-03-20

London (PA Media/dpa) - Gerry Adams has welcomed the "emphatic end" of a High Court damages claim against him by three victims of Provisional Irish Republican Army bombings and said the case "should never have been brought." On Friday, the final day of a two-week trial, lawyers for the victims said the claim against the former Sinn Féin president had been "discontinued" with "no order as to costs." John Clark, a victim of the 1973 Old Bailey bomb......

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