The former MP and Sinn Fein leader is continuing to give evidence in his libel case against the broadcaster at the High Court in Dublin.

Ifthikhar Alam, 25, is also charged with fraud over allegedly lying about being the Cabinet Office’s ‘Head of Western Balkans’.

Live updates as the trial enters the third day for two men accused of felling the world famous Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian's Wall.