Gerry Kelly libel failure: BBC show The View on 11.01.24

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Gerry Kelly libel failure: BBC show The View on 11.01.24 recalls Kelly's failure to deny shooting a prison guard when confronted about it in 2010. He has now tried and failed to sue journalist Malachi O'Doherty over the same claim.

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00:00 We'll be talking about this latest example of what many see as a deliberate tactic by Sinn Féin politicians in a moment.

00:06 But first, watch this exchange between Gerry Kelly and the TUV leader Jim Allister from a BBC political debate back in 2010.

00:14 This is a man who bombed the Old Bailey and one man died.

00:19 This is a man who shot a prison officer in the head.

00:23 He is a victim maker.

00:24 You chose to be a terrorist.

00:26 You chose to plant a bomb.

00:28 You chose to shoot a prison officer in the head.

00:31 I know what you're doing.

00:32 You chose to do it.

00:33 Let Gerry Kelly have his right of reply.

00:35 I'm not blaming him on what I did.

00:37 He is right. I made my decisions.

00:39 Do you regret it?

00:40 What I'm trying to say is that...

00:41 Do you regret shooting a prison officer in the head?

00:44 Do you regret bombing the Old Bailey?

00:47 What I'm trying to get him to understand is that if you're a Republican, right, and your son or daughter was killed,

00:55 then you hurt as well.

00:56 And there is no, no idea of taking that attitude.

01:00 And that's dinosaur politics.

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