MI5 ‘planned bomb attack’ on Dublin Sinn Féin office

THE British security services plotted to blow up Sinn Féin’s Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a former undercover police officer claimed yesterday.

An IRA informer was asked to place the bomb in the offices on Kevin Street in the summer of 1971, according to George Clarke, a retired Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch detective sergeant.

Mr Clarke said he was told by MI5 to offer his republican mole £500 to leave the explosives in the property on a Friday night.