{"id":9827,"date":"2025-08-19T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/9827\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:30:10","slug":"gerry-adams-donates-e100000-bbc-defamation-case-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/9827\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Adams donates \u20ac100,000 BBC defamation case damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Sinn F\u00e9in president Gerry Adams. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/db74a9d7-1d07-4918-893d-043498e891fa.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former Sinn F\u00e9in president Gerry Adams. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gerry Adams has donated his \u20ac100,000 defamation award to various causes, including Unicef, the GAA, and an organisation supporting the families of IRA volunteers who lost their lives during the troubles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The move was disclosed today by his solicitors, almost three months after a High Court jury in Dublin found the former Sinn F\u00e9in leader had been defamed by a 2016 BBC programme and a BBC website article containing allegations he sanctioned the murder of ex-party official Denis Donaldson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Sinn F\u00e9in president Gerry Adams. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA. Gerry Adams has donated his \u20ac100,000 defamation award to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,9618,6,9619,11,12,15,16,5,9620,954,8661,47,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-9827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-gerry-adams","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ira","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-northern-ireland-assembly","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-shane-phelan","23":"tag-sinn-fein","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-world-news","28":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}