{"id":356247,"date":"2026-03-20T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:33:08","slug":"civil-action-against-gerry-adams-by-three-provisional-ira-bombing-victims-should-never-have-been-brought-he-says-as-case-withdrawn-on-final-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356247\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil action against Gerry Adams by three Provisional IRA bombing victims \u2018should never have been brought\u2019, he says as case withdrawn on final day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Gerry Adams welcomed the \u2018emphatic end\u2019 of a High Court damages claim against him by three victims of Provisional IRA bombings and said the case \u2018should never have been brought\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerry Adams said he never had any involvement in the IRA (Gareth Fuller\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2bc4d797-cf67-4a0d-a749-0ca726bf9394.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 said he never had any involvement in the IRA (Gareth Fuller\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Callum Parke, Danny Halpin and Senan Molony<\/p>\n<p>Press AssociationToday at 13:10<\/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)\">Three victims of Provisional IRA bombings in England have discontinued their London High Court damages claim against former Sinn F\u00e9in president Gerry Adams.<\/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)\">Mr Adams was being sued for \u00a31 in damages by three men injured in the blasts in the 1970s and 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Gerry Adams welcomed the \u2018emphatic end\u2019 of a High Court damages claim against him by three victims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,60422,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-356247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-news-in-90-seconds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356247","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=356247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}