Leaked Stakeknife reports tried to wreck peace process, says Cowen

THE leaked reports on the Stakeknife affair were intended to destabilise the Northern Ireland peace process, Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen said last night.

The minister expressed his concerns about the affair at a British-Irish inter-governmental conference dominated by the issue of British security services collusion with paramilitaries.

“Those responsible for putting those reports into the public domain have at very least acted with great irresponsibility,” he said.