Denis Donaldson was shot dead in 2006, months after admitting his role as a police and MI5 agent for 20 years. Mr Adams is suing the BBC over what he deemed to be a “grievous smear” in a ...

Adams tells court he ‘liked but did not have many dealings’ with British spy - Gerry Adams told Dublin’s High Court that he viewed Denis Donaldson as ‘a victim of the conflict’.

Denis Donaldson, 55, died in his isolated home in Glenties in northwest Ireland, said the Irish justice minister, Michael McDowell, adding that Donaldson's right forearm had been nearly severed.

Mr Donaldson was shot dead in Donegal in 2006, months after admitting having worked for the police and MI5 inside Sinn Féin for 20 years. In 2009, the Real IRA said it had murdered him.

In 2005, Mr Donaldson confessed he was a spy for British intelligence for two decades, before disappearing from Belfast. He was found dead in a small, rundown cottage in Glenties, County Donegal.

He denies any involvement. Mr Donaldson was shot dead in 2006, months after admitting he was a police and MI5 agent for 20 years. In 2009 the Real IRA claimed responsibility for the killing, and ...

Mr Adams, 76, claims he was defamed in a 2016 programme and online article which, he claims, wrongly alleged he sanctioned the murder of an informer, Denis Donaldson.

Mr Donaldson was shot dead in 2006, months after admitting his role as a police and MI5 agent for 20 years.. In 2009, the Real IRA claimed responsibility for the killing, and the Spotlight ...

Mr Adams claims a BBC Spotlight programme and related article published in 2016 defamed him by falsely accusing him of sanctioning the 2006 killing of MI5 agent Denis Donaldson. The BBC denies it ...

Who was Denis Donaldson? Mr Donaldson was once a key figure in Sinn Féin's rise as a political force in Northern Ireland but he was found murdered in 2006 after it emerged he had been a spy.

Mr Adams, 76, is suing the BBC over a 2016 programme about the killing of Denis Donaldson and an accompanying online article. He denies any involvement.