McGuinness dismisses British spy allegations as ‘hooey’

SINN Féin’s Martin McGuinness said yesterday he was a million percent certain that no evidence could be produced to support allegations that he was a British spy.

McGuinness dismisses British spy allegations as ‘hooey’

In his first public appearance since the allegations surfaced in the Sunday World newspaper, the Mid Ulster MP described the claims that he worked for MI6 as “hooey”.

The former Stormont Education Minister also accused elements within the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party of being behind the allegations.

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