BBC at it again

[gas112]

Victimising a poor innocent man .

Gerry Adams: Ex-Sinn Féin leader awarded £100k in BBC libel case

The former Sinn Féin leader was seeking damages over a story in which an anonymous contributor alleged he sanctioned the murder of Denis Donaldson.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[blup]

Interesting question , can a man have a reputation based on his work for peace notwithstanding his involvement in war. Churchill gets a bad rap for quite a few things he did but retains his reputation. I guess an Irish court/ jury has a different perspective from us Brits

 

[denso13]

The courts are very black or white at times in their interpretation of the law.. Probably how it should be.

 

[Vinty]

Victimising a poor innocent man .

Gerry Adams: Ex-Sinn Féin leader awarded £100k in BBC libel case

The former Sinn Féin leader was seeking damages over a story in which an anonymous contributor alleged he sanctioned the murder of Denis Donaldson.

www.bbc.co.uk

I paid my TV licence about a month ago, if I had known the BBC was going to use it to pay off an evil **** like Adams , I wouldn't have bothered.
How on earth did the BBC ever believe that a Dublin jury would ever find in favour of the BBC against a leading member of Sinn Fein, no doubt the jury will receive their cut from the 100,000 Euro award.

The total legal bill facing the BBC could be as much as 4.5 million quid, how many more licence payers will have to be hounded by the BBC to make up that shortfall in revenue.

If this court case had of been held in Britain, then the BBC would probably have won,because the BBC is freely available in the Irish Republic, Adams was able to have his defamation case heard in the Republic.

 

[fillyboy]

I paid my TV licence about a month ago, if I had known the BBC was going to use it to pay off an evil **** like Adams , I wouldn't have bothered.

To be sure to be sure. To add insult to injury, plus some irony, he's probably like yourself, a Paddystinian.

 

[Vinty]

To be sure to be sure. To add insult to injury, plus some irony, he's probably like yourself, a Paddystinian.

You are probably more of a Paddy than i am, to be sure.
If you aren't conflating Jews with Zionist, you are now conflating Irish with Palestinian, there are millions of Britons who are appalled at what is happening in Palestine, i suppose they are all Irish as well.
Anyway apart from Sinn Fein, the threat to Ireland today isn't from Paddystinians, its from muslim Paddystani asylum seekers.

 

[Vinty]

nearly 2,000,000 Sinn Fein supporters.

That illustrates my point perfectly.
How did the BBC ever expect to secure a fair verdict from a Dublin jury.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Churchill gets a bad rap for quite a few things

Ungrateful liberal intelligentsia like to dwell on this kind of thing. They would have preferred us to collaborate

 

[Odds]

Ungrateful liberal intelligentsia like to dwell on this kind of thing. They would have preferred us to collaborate

Orwell said something similar about the bourgois middle class in the 1930s, in their attitude to Stalin's Russia - they soon changed their tune after the war, for sure.

 

[Vinty]

And Churchill was a devout Zionist

Don't know about that , he sort of became a bit more ambivalent in his opinion of Zionism when they murdered his friend Lord Moyne in Cairo.
Churchill was also on a Zionist hitlist at one time.

 

[fillyboy]

Don't know about that , he sort of became a bit more ambivalent in his opinion of Zionism when they murdered his friend Lord Moyne in Cairo.
Churchill was also on a Zionist hitlist at one time.

Gerry Adams brother was a rum bugger.

 

[Deluks]

The courts are very black or white at times in their interpretation of the law.. Probably how it should be.

The law is an ass.

Compare this with the Barry George case, why isn't Adams asked to prove that he didn't order the murder?

I'm sure there are many that would consider that Gerry Adams is 'not innocent enough'

'Not innocent enough to be compensated': Barry George loses legal

53-year-old was acquitted of killing the 37-year-old BBC presenter at a retrial in August 2008

www.independent.co.uk

 

[MNW67]

The law is an ass.

Compare this with the Barry George case, why isn't Adams asked to prove that he didn't order the murder?

I'm sure there are many that would consider that Gerry Adams is 'not innocent enough'

Is Irish defamation law the same as UK law in this respect? I believe in the USA, for instance, the burden of proof is reversed.

 

[Highway Man]

The law is an ass.

Compare this with the Barry George case, why isn't Adams asked to prove that he didn't order the murder?

I'm sure there are many that would consider that Gerry Adams is 'not innocent enough'

'Not innocent enough to be compensated': Barry George loses legal

53-year-old was acquitted of killing the 37-year-old BBC presenter at a retrial in August 2008

www.independent.co.uk

Gerry Adams was the political voice of the IRA, he wouldn't ever condem the London bombing campaign.

 

[Notch7]

Victimising a poor innocent man .

Gerry Adams: Ex-Sinn Féin leader awarded £100k in BBC libel case

The former Sinn Féin leader was seeking damages over a story in which an anonymous contributor alleged he sanctioned the murder of Denis Donaldson.

www.bbc.co.uk

Gas112 says “the BBC are at it again, covering news events, how dare they.