McGuinness is not a British spy, insists Ahern

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday dismissed claims that Sinn Féin chief negotiator Martin McGuinness was a British spy.

Mr Ahern insisted the allegations made by a former British army intelligence officer, code-named Martin Ingram, carried in a Sunday newspaper, could not be believed and suggested they may have been designed to damage the peace process.

“A lot of things, I believe, but I wouldn’t believe that. I’d find that just impossible,” Mr Ahern said.