Jury In Gerry Adams Libel Case Against BBC Hears He Thought The IRA Stood For ‘Individual Retirement Account’

GERRY ADAMS has taken to the stand in his libel case against the BBC, for their airing of a documentary which makes the claim Adams ordered the killing of former IRA volunteer and Sinn Féin member Denis Donaldson in 2006, after Donaldson was outed as a longtime informer to MI5 and the PSNI.

“The IRA? What comes to mind when I hear I-R-A? It’s a saving scheme or something, in America, for your pension,” Adams said on the stand in a Dublin court when questioned on the IRA, something he has been accused of being a member of in the past.

“It would be categorically false to assert I have or ever had an ‘Individual Retirement Account’ in the US,” added Adams who called the BBC documentary a hatchet job.

Adams, who has been described in the court as a ‘cuddly meme’ alleges he has been defamed by the Spotlight programme which featured an informer, whose indemnity was kept secret, alleging Adams ordered Donaldson’s killing.

Elsewhere, legal experts suggest a potential ‘libel bonanza’ could be in the offing once Adams discovers the BBC is neither the first nor last entity to allege he was intimately involved, stretching back decades, in helping plan people’s retirement through the Individual Retirement Account scheme.

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