The IRA killers of two top-ranking RUC officers cheered as they fled the murder scene, an eye-witness has claimed.

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

Today’s IRA statement insisting Jean McConville was an informer has caused more pain to her family, her daughter said tonight.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen is due to meet the US envoy to Ireland later today to discuss the current impasse in the Irish peace process.

THE man dubbed the highest-ranking British informer within the IRA has vowed to stay in the country despite allegations he killed 40 people.

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.

By Ryle Dwyer

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.

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.

THE alleged IRA agent known as Stakeknife, who categorically denies working for British military intelligence, is not in the custody of the army, the Minister of Defence claimed yesterday.

The alleged IRA agent known as Stakeknife – who categorically denies working for British military intelligence – is not in the custody of the army, the British Minister of Defence claimed today.

FOR the second time in weeks, Britain stands accused of involvement in a bloody campaign of institutionalised murder and collusion with terrorists.

Sinn Fein today blamed British intelligence for leaking the name of a republican identified as a top IRA informer.

The Stakeknife affair is to be raised with the British government.

The IRA leadership has ordered an immediate review of its internal security as British military authorities today made arrangements for a new life for one of their top spies in Northern Ireland.

The British army’s top agent inside the IRA was in hiding today after his cover was blown in an exposure that rocked the republican movement to its core.

THE IRA could be destroyed by revelations its former security chief was a leading British agent, a former member of the organisation claimed last night.

Scotland Yard chief John Stevens could quiz the British army’s top spy inside the IRA about a spate of sectarian murders within days, it emerged today.

THE STEVENS reports confirms everything the Finucane family has been saying since the murder of Pat Finucane in 1989.