Sinn Féin insists special branch spy ‘is safe at home’

A FORMER Sinn Féin election worker who admitted spying on his colleagues is safe at home, the party claimed last night.

Sinn Féin insists special branch spy ‘is safe at home’

Sean Lavelle, from Donagh in Lisnaskea, Co Fermanagh, confessed to being a special branch agent since 1980 in a statement issued through his solicitor.

His move came after Gerry Adams predicted more spying allegations would surface in the party after last month’s unmasking of its head of administration at Stormont Denis Donaldson as a British agent.

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