Paul Tweed seeks injunction against BBC for Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams

Belfast lawyer Paul Tweed is representing Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams as he seeks an injunction in the Dublin courts to force the BBC to remove an episode of Spotlight from its website.

In March, Mr Tweed announced that Mr Adams was launching defamation proceedings against the BBC over the content of a programme investigating the killing of Denis Donaldson in 2006.

Mr Tweed told Irish Legal News that the new injunction proceedings “relate to the BBC’s failure to remove the offending online content”.

A plenary summons was lodged in the High Court on Friday.

Mr Donaldson was a Provisional IRA volunteer and Sinn Féin member who was murdered after he was exposed as a British spy.

The Real IRA claimed responsibility for the murder in 2009, but nobody has been prosecuted for the killing to date.

The murder was explored by BBC’s Spotlight in September 2016. Mr Adams has denied allegations made about him in the programme.