BBC management must reflect on the outcome of the Gerry Adams libel case and avoid knee-jerk reactions to the verdict, a Sinn Féin minister has said. Stormont’s Finance Minister John O’Dowd said he welcomed the outcome of the high-profile case in Dublin’s High Court.

The former Sinn Féin leader sued the BBC after a 2016 report, in which a source alleged Adams sanctioned the murder of a British agent.

A lawyer who helped the Omagh Bomb families win a civil action against the Real IRA says there still remains a final court case that Gerry Adams must face about his alleged role in the IRA.