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Gerry Adams tells court BBC report was attempted hatchet job on him

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Former Sinn Féin official Denis Donaldson was shot dead in Donegal in 2006 .

Mr Adams says he was "astonished" by the programme's "poor journalism" He was giving evidence in his libel case against the BBC at the High Court in Dublin .

The Real IRA admitted killing Mr Donaldson in 2009 , but Mr Adams denies any involvement.

After the signing of the Good Friday Agreement , Sinn Féin appointed Mr Donaldson as its key administrator in the party's Stormont offices. In 2005 he confessed that he was a spy for British intelligence for two decades , before disappearing from Belfast ..

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