Gerry Adams is defending the legal action against him at the Royal Courts of Justice in London (Ben Whitley/PA)Evidence proving Gerry Adams was behind three IRA bombings in England is “extremely limited” and “bordering on non-existent”, the High Court in London has been told. After Mr Adams finished giving evidence on Wednesday, Mr Craven said to the judge: “You have actually had very little evidence of how, why and by whom these bombings were authorised. Max Hill KC, for the three bombing victims, said while cross-examining Mr Adams on Wednesday that a former volunteer, who had at one point been friends with Mr Adams, understood Mr Adams to be a “major, major player in the war”. Ms Studd also told the court that Mr Adams had “a foot in each camp” of the military and political sides of the Irish Republican movement. The barrister continued that Mr Adams was “directly responsible for and complicit in those decisions made by that organisation to detonate bombs on the British mainland in 1973 and 1996”.

Source: Irish Independent March 19, 2026 07:03 UTC