DETAILS of evidence uncovered by the Smithwick Tribunal into the alleged collusion by gardaí and other state officials in the murder of two senior RUC officers in 1989 will be revealed for the first time today.

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

A FORMER spy who infiltrated the IRA went to the west Belfast home of the man who denies being British Army agent Stakeknife yesterday, in a bid to force him into court.

Britain's Metropolitan Police commissioner John Stevens has been ordered to appear at the High Court in London as a key witness in a case involving Britain’s former top anti-terrorist agents in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

THE makers of a powerful documentary on an attempted political coup in Venezuela were yesterday announced overall winners of the 2003 ESB Media Awards.

THE man accused of being the British Army’s most prized spy at the heart of the IRA had been repeatedly warned by police in Belfast that his life is in danger, he claimed yesterday.

A west Belfast man was today preparing for the latest legal bid to clear his name of allegations that he was the British Army’s most prized agent at the heart of the IRA.

The man identified as the army’s top spy inside the IRA today won the first round in his legal fight to force the British government to make a declaration on his status.

Lawyers acting for the west Belfast man accused of being the top IRA informer known as "Stakeknife" are expected to apply for a judicial review of the British government's refusal to comment on the case.

BELFAST man Freddie Scappaticci is taking High Court action this week aimed at forcing Northern Ireland’s security minister Jane Kennedy to admit if he is – or is not – the IRA double agent codenamed Stakeknife.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen have had an hour-and-a-half long meeting with Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness covering current issues in the peace process.

An IRA informer who claimed he was threatened by the alleged British agent codenamed Stakeknife was questioned today by the team of British detectives investigating collusion allegations in Northern Ireland.

THE leaked reports on the Stakeknife affair were intended to destabilise the Northern Ireland peace process, Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen said last night.

I HAVE been instructed by Fred Scappaticci to make the following public statement:

TÁNAISTE Mary Harney yesterday called on the British Government to come clean about the alleged British agent known as Stakeknife.