A senior IRA figure who became one of Britain’s most prized spies in the North has been linked to at least 18 murders.

A British agent who infiltrated the IRA has claimed today that a convicted bomb-maker was also a secret informer.

A British agent who infiltrated the IRA revealed there was not a day when the terror group was not trying to kill a member of the security forces.

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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.

The judge heading an inquiry into suspected Garda-IRA collusion in the murder of two senior RUC officers believes a November deadline is achievable.

Former Sinn Féin publicity director Danny Morrison today demanded the courts reveal why a conviction linking him to an IRA kidnap plot was dramatically overturned.

The tribunal investigating the murder of two senior RUC officers almost 18 years ago has refused to grant legal representation to Freddie Scappaticci.

THE IRA has always had members who have been fixated by the thought of spies in their midst.

SINN Féin’s Martin McGuinness said yesterday he was a million percent certain that no evidence could be produced to support allegations that he was a British spy.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday dismissed claims that Sinn Féin chief negotiator Martin McGuinness was a British spy.

Sinn Féin today rubbished claims by a former British Army intelligence officer that its chief negotiator Martin McGuinness was a British spy.

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.

A LIFE on the run, hiding from angry republicans, faced Denis Donaldson last night.

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

The identity of another top-ranking IRA man who worked for British intelligence in Northern Ireland has been revealed, it was claimed today.

Gardaí are to travel to England to question a former agent about an IRA campaign of torture and murder along the border, it was claimed today.

A British army agent facing jail for claiming soldiers plotted with terrorist murderers is seeking political asylum in the United States, it emerged tonight.

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.

A former spy who infiltrated the IRA went to the west Belfast home of the man who denies being British Army agent Stakenife today 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 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.

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 today.

A WEST Belfast man yesterday lost the latest bid to clear his name of allegations that he was the British Army’s top spy in the IRA.

Sinn Féin has criticised the High Court in Belfast for rejecting attempts by a 59-year-old republican to get the British government to deny that he was an informer for the British army.

A man named as a top British army agent inside the IRA has been granted some security protection, it emerged today.

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.

A British High Court bid to force Northern Ireland minister Jane Kennedy to face a cross-examination from lawyers over the Stakeknife affair was rejected today.

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has denied claims that he was involved in luring an IRA informer back to the North in 1986 so he could be killed by his former associates.

The home of the man alleged to be British army agent known as Stakeknife was at the centre of a security alert today.

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.

The British government faced demands today to call off all military intelligence operations which undermine the Northern Ireland peace process.

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.

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.

British special branch officers have carried out a raid on a London house used by a former intelligence agent who had threatened to reveal the identity of the IRA spy codenamed Stakeknife.

Calls for a public inquiry into allegations about the use of double agents by military intelligence were dismissed today by an Ulster Unionist MP.

Gerry Adams has said the press were "conned" in the recent Stakeknife allegations.

A WOMAN glared through the glass-panelled front door of Freddie Scappaticci’s west Belfast home yesterday and made it clear that the alleged double agent was in no mood for talking.

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams tonight demanded that the British Government come clean about all its operations in Northern Ireland amid the ongoing Stakeknife spy controversy.

The British government has given those who oppose change in Northern Ireland an advantage by creating a political vacuum, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams argued tonight.

A woman glared through the glass panelled front door of Freddie Scappaticci’s west Belfast home today and made it clear he was in no mood for talking.

Alleged army agent Freddie Scappaticci came out of hiding today and again protested his innocence against claims that he spied on the IRA.