Sinn Féin denials no comfort to unionists

THE North’s bloodstained history had lulled its people into believing they could no longer be shocked.

However, unionists and republicans last night admitted they were stunned by the murder of former Sinn Féin head of administration-turned-British agent Denis Donaldson.

Since admitting in Dublin last December that he had spied on his colleagues in the republican movement for two decades, Mr Donaldson had gone to ground.