Ex-Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has been awarded €100,000 (£84,000) in damages after winning his libel case against the BBC.
Adams, 76, took the BBC to court over a Spotlight NI documentary and an accompanying online article.
An anonymous source alleged Adams had sanctioned the 2006 murder of British agent Dennis Donaldson.
Donaldson had been emerging as a prominent figure inside Sinn Fein ranks but was murdered in 2006 after it had emerged he had been an informant for two decades.
Adams, who has always denied any involvement in the Irish Republican Army, had outed Donaldson as a MI5 agent a year before his death.
The Real IRA claimed responsibility for Donaldson’s murder and reiterated it carried out the killing after the release of the controversial BBC documentary.
A former Real IRA council member said: “Let me be clear about this. A claim of responsibility was made by (the Real IRA) in 2009 and it was correct.
“Gerry Adams had absolutely nothing to do with the execution of British agent Denis Donaldson. The Provisional IRA wasn’t involved in any shape or form.
“I don’t know why allegations that the Provos did it are now being made but they are totally untrue.”
