Gerry Adams ‘major, major player in war’, High Court told

Gerry Adams is defending the legal action against him at the Royal Courts of Justice in London (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

Gerry Adams was a “major, major player in the war”, according to one of his former friends who was an IRA volunteer, the High Court has heard.

Brendan Hughes said the words during a recorded interview that was played in court to Mr Adams, who is giving evidence in defence of a legal claim brought against him by three victims of bombings in England by the Provisional IRA in the 1970s and 1990s.