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.

Northern Secretary Peter Hain has ruled out a public inquiry into the so-called 'Stormontgate' scandal that led to the collapse of the North's power-sharing institutions more than three years ago.

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

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain today defended a police operation against republicans which brought down devolution in the North three years ago and led to the exposure of a Sinn Féin official as a British spy.

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.

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has insisted the only spy ring which operated out of Stormont was operated by British Intelligence Services.

Unionists today demanded a public inquiry after Sinn Féin expelled a senior party official who had admitted working as 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.