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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Callum Parke

Gerry Adams welcomes ’emphatic end’ to High Court claim over IRA bombings

Gerry Adams at the Royal Courts of Justice in London (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Gerry Adams has welcomed the “emphatic end” of a High Court damages claim against him by three victims of Provisional IRA bombings and said the case “should never have been brought”.

On Friday, the final day of a two-week trial, lawyers for the victims said the claim against the former Sinn Fein president had been “discontinued” with “no order as to costs”.

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