Mr Jeffrey Donaldson of Ulster Unionist Party has been awarded "substantial" damages over an untrue allegation he was a mourner at the funeral of a UDA pipe bomber.
The allegation was contained in a Sunday Tribunearticle written by Brenda Power and published in January 2001.
The award was made in the High Court in Belfast. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Mr Donaldson was awarded damages in respect of the same libel in two other newspapers in March 1999.