PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde has briefed the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern about the latest developments in the so-called Stormontgate scandal.

A small number of Sinn Féin supporters have engaged in minor scuffles with Gardai during a protest outside Government Buildings in Dublin this morning.

The North's Policing Board is due to hold a special meeting this afternoon to discuss the so-called Stormontgate affair.

Sinn Féin was accused of politicising policing today as the Northern Ireland chief constable gave a robust defence of his officers’ handling of the Stormont spying scandal.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern has vowed that the so-called Stormontgate scandal will not hold up the peace process in the North.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, is urging the British government to put more information about 'Stormontgate' into the public domain.

The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, has said that the British government must rein in those within policing and security in the North who want to damage the peace process.

Dissident elements within the British security services are undermining progress made by the IRA during the peace process, Gerry Adams has warned.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams (pictured) should quit in the wake of spying allegations which have rocked his party, a leading SDLP member claimed today.

The British government was tonight challenged to launch a public inquiry into the Stormontgate affair after a top Republican official, who admitted he was a British agent, said the matter had been “a scam and a fiction” invented by UK intelligence.

The Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has said that he will be demanding answers from the British government following the latest revelation in the 'Stormontgate' affair.

Prominent republican Denis Donaldson is facing a new life outside Ireland today after he admitted working as a British agent for the past 20 years.

THE suspension of the Stormont Assembly in 2002 took on an extraordinary series of Machiavellian twists yesterday with revelations that Sinn Féin’s head of administration at the Assembly has been a British spy for two decades.

A top republican who headed Sinn Féin’s Stormont offices, tonight confirmed he was a British agent for two decades.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight described allegations that a senior Sinn Féin figure was a British agent as bizarre.

A top republican was thrown out of Sinn Féin tonight after its leader Gerry Adams alleged he was working as a British agent.

The editor of the Daily Ireland newspaper has accused the British government of doing nothing to protect himself and his colleagues from loyalist paramilitaries

Sinn Féin must address the future of the IRA if it is to bridge its huge credibility gap, the party was told today.