Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was among those in attendance

People gathered at the Sands statue to mark 45 years since the republican’s death amid a row over it being erected without planning permission

Met Police urged to start new inquiry into Gerry Adams links with IRA after the dramatic sudden end to recent civil case

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

The three men claimed Mr Adams was a leading member of the Provisional IRA on those dates, including of its army council

Three victims of Provisional IRA bombings in England have stopped their damages claim against former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams

'How is that fair on me or all the victims who deserve justice?'

Mr Adams was being sued for £1 in damages by three men injured in the blasts in the 1970s and 1990s.

On Wednesday, after playing the clip in which Mr Hughes calls Mr Adams a major player, Sir Max Hill KC, for the three bombing victims, said: “You were, weren’t you Mr Adams? And you deny it.”

He added: “I hope to live in a united Ireland, but if I do not, I will go to my grave content that I have played a role in bringing about a united Ireland.”

“I was never a member of the IRA or its Army Council, and I never held any role or rank within the IRA."

Mr Adams denies ever being in the Provisional IRA and is defending the claim

The witness also said that if Mr Adams did not hold a high rank in the IRA, then he pulled off “a remarkable coup” in convincing the British, Irish and US governments, as well as many IRA members, that he was

Giving evidence for the civil trial against the former Sinn Fein president, witness B, who cannot be named, said he concluded that Mr Adams was 'undoubtedly a member of the Army Council'

Known anonymously as witness A, a retired serviceman said that shortly after he arrived in Northern Ireland in 1972, he learned of Mr Adams’ alleged involvement in the IRA

Mr O’Doherty, who has been publicly critical of the IRA following his prison sentence, also described Mr Adams as “suffering from the ‘last man standing’ syndrome”

Mr Adams denies that he had any role in the Provisional IRA and is opposing the claim.

Gerry Adams appeared at the High Court in London after victims of numerous Provisional IRA bombings in England said they are seeking £1 in damages against him

John Clark, a victim of the 1973 Old Bailey bombing in London, Jonathan Ganesh, a 1996 London Docklands bombing victim, and Barry Laycock, a victim of the 1996 Arndale shopping centre bombing in Manchester, all allege that Mr Adams was a leading member of the Provisional IRA on those dates, including of its Army Council

Three men are bringing legal action against the former Sinn Fein president and are seeking £1 in damages

Three men are bringing legal action against the former Sinn Fein president and are seeking just £1 in damages

The result is a production that is consistently watchable and intermittently very funny, but which stops short of being fully satisfying.

Alan McKee said that the journalists used actors rather than the voices of other journalists in the newsroom so that they could pass it off as a "performance".

Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams sat down with Belfast Live to reflect on the impact of the broadcast ban, which prevented his voice from being heard on the airwaves

A brave bomb survivor speaks out 30 years on since the IRA targeted London's Docklands, and he remembers his friends ahead of the major memorial service on Monday