{"id":350312,"date":"2026-03-17T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350312\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:47:11","slug":"gerry-adams-may-have-spectacularly-deluded-himself-into-thinking-he-was-not-in-the-ira-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350312\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Adams may have &#8216;spectacularly deluded&#8217; himself into thinking he was not in the IRA, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerry Adams may have \u2018deluded\u2019 himself over IRA membership, High Court hears (Jordan Pettitt\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6680b7e9-0c6a-499c-a73f-020b81a24b6f.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)\">Gerry Adams may have \u2018deluded\u2019 himself over IRA membership, High Court hears (Jordan Pettitt\/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 may have \u201cspectacularly deluded\u201d himself into thinking he was not in the Provisional IRA (PIRA) by virtue of his leadership role, the UK High Court has heard.<\/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)\">On Monday, journalist John Ware gave evidence at the civil trial being brought against the former Sinn Fein president by victims of three bombings in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Gerry Adams may have \u2018deluded\u2019 himself over IRA membership, High Court hears (Jordan Pettitt\/PA) Gerry Adams may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-350312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}